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A Sobering Reflection
Today’s meditation focuses on 2 Peter 3:7 and the concept of divine judgement. We explore the eve… (visit YouTube for more)
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We have a sobering verse to dwell on today as we meditate on something from the second letter of Peter. It’s two Peter, chapter three, verse seven. But by the same word, the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.
God created the heavens and the earth through his word, and now his powerful word ultimately is going to bring about judgment and the purifying of the heavens and the earth through fire. The heavens and the earth will be recreated. We see that in the book of Revelation.
And this is sobering because we know that we are in history on a course towards this ultimate end. What lies beyond is bliss and paradise with God, but along the way, God is going to bring about his judgment. All the wrongs in this world will ultimately be righted. All those who reject God will be themselves rejected by God.
And so we who know God, should bear this in mind, so that we are doing what we can to bring people into the better knowledge of God, showing to them how beautiful it is to be in relationship with him. How much he makes sense of this world and this life.
We shouldn’t be motivated by terror-fear of this judgment, this destruction, because God wants us to operate from a foundation of love. But we still need to be mindful that God is a holy God and that holiness and justice demands punishment.
There’s a way out of this for everyone. By accepting what Jesus did so that the punishment that should fall on us fell on him instead, but we only benefit from that, if we say, yes, Jesus, I accept you. If we continue to say, no, God, I’m not interested in you, then he eventually will say, my son, my daughter, this makes me sad, but so be it.
As I said, a sobering word, but we shouldn’t shy away from anything that’s in our Bible. It’s there for our instruction and our training. It’s there to lead us into truth.
