Category Archives: 2 Peter

…eventually, but certainly…what will I do with myself now?

All the stuff I have, all the stuff I want, all the stuff for which I work, and all the stuff that doesn’t fall into any of those three categories — someday it will all be gone.

“Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness?” (2 Peter 3:11).

Recently it struck me that I no longer work so that I may get certain things. The focus of my work has been earning the means by which to pay bills and eliminate debt. To me that seems more “noble,” somehow, but still shallow.

Even so, considering that everything I see will one day be destroyed, I ought to focus my life on being holy and godly.

May God teach me and help me to seek first His kingdom and righteousness, laying up treasures in heaven.

We tend to view Lot in a poor light. We look at him kind of sideways, with (at least) a little contempt, perhaps, and a little suspiciousness.

“You know Lot. He’s the guy that didn’t have the decency to leave the best land to his uncle Abraham (to whom it belonged in the first place).”

“Oh yeah, him! And he’s the guy that had materialism oozing out his pores, so much so that he chose to live in a city reknown to this day for its extreme wickedness.”

“Hey! And didn’t he offer his two of his daughters to a bunch of crazies?”

Oh yes indeed. We know Lot.

Do you know what the Bible calls him?

“And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked” (2 Peter 2:7).

Oh.

I wonder how many other people — people around me — I have misjudged.

Furthermore, would God give a similar testimony of me?

Just how just am I, and vexed (worn down, troubled, distressed) by the ungodliness and immorality around me?

Not to the same degree as “that Lot”!