{"id":68,"date":"2003-11-09T20:51:20","date_gmt":"2003-11-10T01:51:20","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-03-04T21:02:31","modified_gmt":"2008-03-05T02:02:31","slug":"hasting-unto-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblearchive.com\/blog\/hasting-unto-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Hasting Unto What?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrew Shelor<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2 Peter 3:12 we are told that we are to be looking forward to the Day
\nof God with eager anticipation as if our eagerness might somehow hasten its coming.

But
\nwhat is it about the Day of God that we are to long for so intently in this passage? It is
\nthe complete dissolution by fire of the visible heavens and earth: our physical realm in
\nwhich we live with all its works (verse 10). I wonder how many of us long for the
\ndestruction of our own personal physical realm that we have worked so hard to acquire and
\nmaintain. <\/p>\n

Oh to be sure, we are ready enough to be released from the burdensome
\ntroubles associated wit h this fallen world, but what about our treasured comforts and
\npossessions: our lands, homes, cars, furnishings, and all the other earthly things with
\nwhich we are so enamored now?? If the treasure of our hearts is not wholly in things
\neternal, it can only compromise that sweet anticipation that we should have for the coming
\nDay of God. <\/p>\n

Will we be like Lot and his wife: hesitant to the last to lose all the
\nthings of this world they had treasured so highly, at the expense of the true blessings
\nthat God would have given them? How much better to be like Abraham who ?looked for a
\ncity which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God!?(Heb. 11:10) Is not
\nfriendship with the world enmity with God? (James 4:4) This ?friend of
\nGod,?Abraham, would not take so much as ?a thread to a shoe latchet? from
\nthe world, but ?lifted up his hand unto Jehovah, the Most High God, the possessor of
\nheaven and earth.?(Gen. 14:22-23) <\/p>\n

With irony we note what Lot sought so earnestly was totally lost to him
\nalong with the last shred of his dignity. On the other hand, the material blessing that
\nGod bestowed upon Abraham was not a master to him but rather a servant, that he might use
\nit for the glory of God in His work. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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