SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR
05/12/2004
My Worship Time
Focus: PT-3
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.”
We have been talking about God’s delay, delaying in
sending Christ to collect His church, as the apostates were making fun of the
fact that this promise has not been fulfilled by the Lord. We mentioned that God has a plan and nothing
or no one will stop His plan from being fulfilled by Him, and so since Christ
has not yet returned to collect His church it has to be a part of the plan of
God for this not to happen yet. Peter
tells us in verse nine that God wants people to come to repentance and be
saved, and so because of God’s long-suffering He has not returned to earth
yet. We spoke earlier about when God
brought the flood on planet earth and we saw that Noah and his family, as they
were building the ark were preaching to the lost people around them for 120
years, thus showing the patience of God.
When God was about to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah He patiently waited for
Abraham to pray to Him about his concern for the people of those cities. I just want to say again that God is
completely in control, and God is all knowing, and also long-suffering, waiting
for people to come to repentance and trust the Lord Jesus Christ’s death burial
and resurrection to pay for their sins.
The resurrection of Jesus Christ is proof that God had accepted His
payment for our sins.
Dr. Wiersbe writes “Perhaps Peter was using the word us in a general way, meaning
‘mankind.’ But it is more likely that he
was referring to his readers as the elect of God (1 Peter 1:2; 2 Peter
1:10). God is long-suffering toward lost
sinners because some of them will
believe and become a part of God’s elect people. We do not know who God’s elect are among the
unsaved people of the world, nor are we supposed to know. Our task is to make our own ‘calling and election sure’ (2 Peter 1:10; cf Luke
13:23-30. The fact that God has His
elect people is and encouragement to us to share the Good News and seek to win
others to Christ.”
In our next SD we will look more indebt at the word
repentance as Peter only uses this word one time in his writings of both
letters, and it is an important word for us to understand.
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