Re:Verse passage – 2 Peter 3:8-9 (day five) “But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.”
The most challenging class I took in college was Greek. It was a three semester class. It was fascinating and exhilarating to study a biblical language. Every test (weekly) was “comprehensive”- meaning that for a year and a half, we were required to remember everything learned and taught from the beginning. Something read or presented (grammar rule, vocabulary word) in August of one year could (and often did) appear on a test in December the following year.
The Christian faith is “comprehensive” meaning that the truths, insights, and promises of God are meant to be remembered and retained. What we learn and experience from the Lord is meant to stay with us in our hearts and minds forever. These early believers were quick to forget. So Pastor Peter continues to challenge them to remember (today’s text refers to Psalm 90). This kind of remembering is a spiritual discipline and also a facet of spiritual warfare. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, “The devil doesn’t fill us with hatred for God, but with forgetfulness of God.”
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