Faulty Eyesight!

Week 18, Day 4 Reading: 2 Peter 3:1-18

I remember the day our son Josh first put on eyeglasses.  He remarked, “Oh, I didn’t know trees looked like that!”.  He had no idea what his surroundings really looked like because he had been living with unfocused eyes. 

In the same way, the scoffers in this passage view the world and eternity with faulty eyesight.  They look at life saying that everything will continue as it has from the beginning.  In Matthew, Christ refers to His return being like the days of Noah: “Before the great flood everyone was carrying on as usual, having a good time right up to the day Noah boarded the ark. They knew nothing—until the flood hit and swept everything away”. The scoffers have no room for God who has the power to both create and to destroy. 

With nostalgia I view reruns of The Rifleman on TV.  The world of the Rifleman is always safe and predictable.  If you have seen one episode, you have pretty much seen all the episodes:  Lucas (the Rifleman) and Mark (his son) encounter a bad guy.  Lucas wins and he closes the show by speaking a life lesson to the camera.  In no episode do the heavens open up with fire destroying the earth.

The scoffers in II Peter passage view their lives through the lenses of “past episodes”.  If Christ didn’t return in the last episode, then He won’t return in this episode. 

Do you live your life realizing that Creator God is writing the episode?

Written by guest blogger, Jacqui Stoner