Are You Floating or Fighting?
We either stop floating along with the crowd that lives for the weekend sports, the weekend parties, the weekend fun, and live every day as sacred for Christ: and suffer.
Or, we just float along with the world as believers; and enjoy, as much as we can, the best of both worlds.
Are you floating along in the river of materialism this morning? Or are you fighting against its control of your heart, mind, and will? That is the proof of who we really serve.
We try to stay focused on the Lord, especially on Sundays, but so much of our life is consumed with things, activities, and pursuits: that it is very hard to focus on God. Jesus said how hard it is to follow His path. Peter agrees:
Godly Living is a Struggle
We can see that very little has changed from Peter’s day to ours; and God’s Word speaks so clearly to our lives as it did to theirs, twenty centuries ago. That is the power of the supra-cultural, timelessness of the Scriptures.
So, what were Peter’s lessons to them, and to us, by the power of the Spirit of God’s inspired Word?
Peter targets them and us with a reminder that all of our homes, cars, collections, gadgets, trophies, treasures, investments, and anything else material in our lives: face a future, fiery destruction by God Himself.
Please join me 2 Peter 3:11-13 (NKJV), and learn from Peter how to live for things in life that won’t ever get burned up and be forever lost. Please stand as we hear God speak through His Word.
Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, 12 looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat? 13 Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
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