Or the question of our lives is "Who do we say Jesus is?" Peter answered the question by saying "You are the Messiah" (which means anointed one). Then Jesus told him not to tell anyone about him. This was probably because it wasn't time yet.
I don't really have much to say, except that we need to examine who Jesus is for us, and we need to make a decision of whether or not Jesus said he is, who he said he is. Let me leave this quote from C.S. Lewis for you today.
"I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."
— C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)
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