Woke up feeling sick and last thing I wanted to do was do
the test. I decided to call it a quiz to make me feel better!
Felt peace about it and just thought well, if I don’t
know it by now then I don’t know it…! This it went really well in the end!
One of my friends put it like this:
‘End of term test done! Woot! Astheticism, liberalism,
Sadducees, Pharisees, Claudius, Nero, Famine, Council of Jerusalem
Sounds about right!
Loved charting today, revelation! This from my Vertical charts. Especially
this bit which really blew my heart up…
‘The Lord is not slow to fulfil his promise
as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should
perish, but that all should reach repentance.’ 2 Peter 3:9
Peter
reacts to a possible untruth told about Christ’s coming back. He says that the Lord is not slow in fulfilling his promise.
Why would he say this unless he has heard they are being lied to!? The scoffers
doubted the promise 3:4. The coming of the Lord was a big deal because of the
hope they had through this promise. They needed this assurance and they had it
before the false teachers came. Peter goes on to say ‘as some would count
slowness’.
Perhaps they were telling the churches that the Lord was slow
deliberately making them wait in vain, not saving them from their persecution,
suggesting he was untruthful to his word. When in fact it was the false
teachers who were untrustworthy. Peter goes on to say the Lord is patient not
wishing anyone should perish. This would have quietened the voice of liars.
Peter is speaking out God’s character, he is patient, but he is also merciful.
He doesn’t want anyone to perish, he wants all to reach salvation. How glorious
that truth is in light of the deception the churches would have been facing. A
God they could count on to love them and wait patiently for others to come to
know him!
Another bit
that really got me was when Peter writes; According to
his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living
hope through the
resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable,
undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you. 1 Peter 4:4-5
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