Be at Peace with God

2 Peter 3:14-16

14 Therefore, beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, spotless and blameless, 15 and regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, 16 as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.

Here Peter goes on to say that since we are eager for His coming, we ought also to be at peace with God and to live blamelessly (without grumbling about things, Phil. 2:14-15). And remember that our Lord is patiently waiting for people to repent and be saved; and that is why His coming may seem to take long.

Peter here mentions the Apostle Paul, who wrote on this same subject of His coming; that he was given wisdom from the Lord to understand these hard topics. But Peter wanted them to know that false prophets (particularly those who are “untaught” or have been instructed wrongly) have distorted Paul’s teaching on this subject, and also on all Scriptures. (Today there are many seminaries that are quite liberal and distort the truth of Scripture, so that those who attend graduate without knowing the truth.) 

Life is Good

In my last post I gave you all my complaints. This morning I have been thinking and feeling how good my life is—pretty good. I really have very little to complain about. I am well fed, feeling good, healthy. I have no debts, just day to day expenses. God is good!

The sun is shining, and I know that God has been merciful to me.

I am feeling more and more like writing my next book on heaven, and I have an idea for the outline. I think at this time in my life the best thing I can do is to think every day on heaven. Maybe that is why I feel so good today—because I have been reading about it—what it will be like.

Some people say that if you are too heavenly bound you are no earthly good. But I think that if you are too earthly bound you are no earthly good; for thinking on heaven is the best way for a Christian to feel good about life. Knowing where we are headed and knowing that it will be wonderful, tends to brighten ones day on earth and give him a motivation for living a holy life.