Luke 22:53-62 gives the account of the bold and impetuous fisherman’s encounter with reality, a lesson for all that ignorantly overestimate their strength against any form of challenge!

Even accomplished warrior-kings declare: Let not him who girds on his harness boast as he who puts it off (1 Kings 20:11 (AMPC).
 
How very often are we like this disciple, whose opinion was often countering the words and action of the Lord? In Matthew 16:21-23, John 13:5-8 and now here in our text of today, Peter failed where he’d once felt great confidence in his commitment to die for the Lord.

When I was with you day after day in the temple [enclosure], you did not stretch forth [your] hands against Me. But this is your hour–and the power [which] darkness [gives you has its way]. Then they seized Him and led Him away, bringing Him into the house of the high priest. Peter was following at a distance. And when they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and were seated together, Peter sat among them. Then a servant girl, seeing him as he sat in the firelight and gazing [intently] at him, said, This man too was with Him. But he denied it and said, Woman, I do not know Him!

And a little later someone else saw him and said, You are one of them also. But Peter said, Man, I am not!  And when about an hour more had elapsed, still another emphatically insisted, It is the truth that this man also was with Him, for he too is a Galilean! But Peter said, Man, I do not know what you are talking about. And instantly, while he was still speaking, the cock crowed. And the Lord turned and looked at Peter. And Peter recalled the Lord’s words, how He had told him, Before the cock crows today, you will deny Me thrice. And he went out and wept bitterly [that is, with painfully moving grief]. Luke 22:53-62 (AMPC)

What was the premise of this self-confidence or self-assurance, a question we each should pose to ourselves! May we never fail to recognise and heed the warning of the Lord concerning the hour of the power of darkness, and when that time comes, run to the Rock of our safety.
 
The Lord had to chip away Peter’s pride and ill-timed notion of accessing glory; that Christ was the grand deliverer of Israel from the oppression of the Romans. His premise was wrong, for currently, central to Christ’s mission was that the disciples understood that they were to represent and carry His message of redemption all over the nations. John 17 (TPT)

Achieving glory ceases to matter when we focus on the Lord’s plan for lasting personal salvation.

Brethren, this is not the time for pride in our cleverness and strength. They will only get in the way of God’s purposes. There is no place for impulsive know-it-all of the fisherman. Glory be to the Lord who saw the potential of the fisherman despite these flaws, for when indeed he was broken with such humiliating encounters, he became he became the servant-leader that Christ thrice demanded of him in John 21:15-17.