2 Peter 2: 14 “Therefore beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless.”
Dear God,
I thank You for safe keeping, in all aspects of my life, especially when I remember the havoc that has been reaped in so many places around the world, as well as the accidental deaths that can occur in a seconds. I pray for the injured and those left sorrowing, that they may find Your peace.
Peter, as did all the apostles, longed for the second coming of Jesus and spent much time urging the church congregation to live blameless lives, so they would be worthy for Jesus to take them to heaven. Of course this was over 2,000 years ago; however whether it was then or the day before Jesus comes back, does not change things, from the aspect, that Your scriptures reveal, that when anyone has died in Christ, they will know nothing of the happenings of earth, until Jesus, at His second coming gives them new life. Therefore the scriptural advice of the apostles is pertinent for every age, because all agree that any opportunity for salvation, finishes the moment my life is over.
Today, dear Father, in the strength and admonition of the Holy Spirit, I determine to live a life worthy of You. 2 Peter 3: 11 “Therefore, since all these will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness.” But I now think, that it does not matter how long that the second coming of Jesus is delayed, because more people will be saved from sin and eternal death. 2 Peter 3: 15, 8 “And consider that the long suffering of our Lord is salvation……… But, beloved do not forget this one thing that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” We live a life that operates in seconds, minutes etc., , for a life span these days lived in the Western world of 70 – 100 years; with much condensed into a short time, whereas You, God deal in millennia.
Through his writing in scripture, Peter reassures us all, the seeming delay of the second coming of Jesus, is not due to God being slack, V 9 “The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”
Thank You Father God, for Your total love and care for we on earth and I choose again, to follow You.
Amen