Strive To Be Found By Him At Peace
But the day of the Lord will come like
a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, and the
elements will be dissolved with fire, and the earth and everything that is done
on it will be disclosed.
Since all these things are to be
dissolved in this way, what sort of persons ought you to be in leading lives of
holiness and godliness, waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God,
because of which the heavens will be set ablaze and dissolved, and the elements
will melt with fire? But, in accordance with his promise, we wait for new
heavens and a new earth, where righteousness is at home.
Therefore, beloved, while you are
waiting for these things, strive to be found by him at peace, without spot or
blemish; and regard the patience of our Lord as salvation. So also our beloved
brother Paul wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, speaking of this
as he does in all his letters. There are some things in them hard to
understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as
they do the other scriptures. You therefore, beloved, since you are forewarned,
beware that you are not carried away with the error of the lawless and lose
your own stability. But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the
day of eternity. Amen.
Daily life can be hazardous to your
health. Jesus calls us as followers to a courageous lifestyle of faith in which
our goal is not to avoid personal harm but to pursue the mission of God in our
world. The apostle Peter vividly described the day of the Lord, which will
bring the end of the earth as we know it. But instead of fainting with
apprehension, Peter said we should be filled with anticipation. Proper concern
will help to protect us, but excessive alarm leaves us paralyzed. We should be
most afraid of failing to live with complete confidence in God.
The power of
Christ within you
is greater than
the power of evil around you.
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