2 Peter 3: One Day With The Lord
Monday, May 6, 2024
We have spent the week with Peter, recalling his turnings and re-turnings to the Lord. Watching as he examines his true self to bring a transformed heart to Christ. We see how Peter allows his suffering and trust in the Spirit to set him free. Today we reflect on his words to see how he handles scoffers, naysayers, and rumors that the world as we know it is coming to an end. Today we spend one day with the Lord, remembering God’s goodness, Christ’s redemption and the Spirit’s healing consolation.
For one day with the Lord is like as a thousand years, and a thousand years is as one day. (2 Peter 3:8)
Better is one day in your courts [O Lord] than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked. (Psalm 84:10)
The Lord does not delay in God’s promises, but for your sake is long-suffering, not wishing that you should perish but that all should return to repentance. (2 Peter 3:9)
For God so loved the world that God gave God’s one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. (John 3:16-17)
The day of the Lord will come as a thief. (2 Peter 3:10)
But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him. Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in charge of the servants in his household to give them their food at the proper time? (Matthew 24:43-45)
Therefore, beloved, while you look for these things, endeavor to be found by him without spot and blameless in peace . . . Therefore, since you know this beforehand, be on your guard lest, carried away by the error of the foolish, you fall away from your own steadfastness. (2 Peter 3:17)
In this Eastertide, let us listen to the words very likely written by a follower of Peter. Let us sit with the words of the psalmist, and of the apostles Matthew and John. Let us take them into our fiber and being and vow to live each day in Christ as if it were the one and only day given to us to be lived with the Lord. Let us consider these words for what they are – an Easter gift that warms the hardened heart, and turns all harm to good.
And so beloved, grow in grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. To him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen. (2 Peter 3:18)
The Risen Christ and Peter
On this fourth Sunday after the miracle of Easter, we thank Peter for his honesty and courage. And we determine to follow in his way.
Adapted from a Favorite written during Advent 2010 as we considered Jesus as a Christmas miracle and gift. Today we reflect on how Peter’s words brings to us the resurrected Christ as God’s promise of salvation fulfilled.
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To re-visit the story of Jesus’ Passion, Death and resurrection by James Tissot, click on the images or visit: http://www.joyfulheart.com/holy-week/
Images from: http://www.joyfulheart.com/holy-week/peters_first_denial_of_jesus.htm and http://www.joyfulheart.com/holy-week/peters_second_denial_of_jesus.htm and https://www.joyfulheart.com/holy-week/third_denial_of_peter_jesus.htm and https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/13529
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