SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR
05/11/2004
My Worship Time
Focus: PT-2
God’s Will is Merciful
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: 2 Peter
3:8-10
Message of the
verses: “8 But do not let this one fact escape your
notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a
thousand years like one day. 9 The Lord
is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward
you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance. 10 But
the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away
with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth
and its works will be burned up.”
To help us understand verse eight a bit better I want to
quote a paragraph from Dr. Wiersbe’s commentary: “Since a thousand years are as one day to the
Lord, we cannot accuse Him of delayed fulfillment of His promises. In God’s sight, the whole universe is only a
few days old! He is not limited by time
the way we are, nor does He measure it according to man’s standards. When you study the works of God, especially
in the Old Testament, you can see that He is never in a hurry, but He is never
late.”
Some things that God could have done in an instant of
time were the creation, yet He did it in six days, another thing He could have
done in an instant is having Israel taken out of Egypt, yet He trained Moses
for eighty years to accomplish this task.
Christ could have come much sooner but according to Galatians 4:4 we
read “But when the
fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born
under the Law.”
The scoffers did not understand the delay of Christ’s
return to earth because they did not understand His eternality, and they
certainly did not His mercy. God was
perfectly able to act, as this is not the reason for what they would call His
delay. God has a plan and therefore He
is not tardy or even off schedule of accomplishing His plan. When God begins to move He will move and no
one will stop Him. God is sovereign and
will act when He wants to, and He does not need sinful man to give Him advice
on what and how to do things. “33 Oh,
the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How
unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways! 34 For WHO HAS KNOWN
THE MIND OF THE LORD, OR WHO BECAME HIS COUNSELOR? 35 Or WHO HAS FIRST GIVEN TO
HIM THAT IT MIGHT BE PAID BACK TO HIM AGAIN? 36 For from Him and through Him
and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen (Romans
11:33-36).”
We will conclude this SD with another quote from Dr.
Wiersbe: “God delays the coming of
Christ and the great day of fiery judgment because He is long-suffering and
wants to give lost sinners the opportunity to be saved. ‘And account that the long-suffering of our
Lord is salvation’ (2 Peter 3:15).”
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