Notes of Faith March 31, 2025
Who? . . . You!
Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness…?
2 Peter 3:11
When Albert Einstein proposed his theory of relativity, it became an accepted fact that traveling into the future is possible but not into the past. That doesn’t stop Dr. Who. The famous fictional character is the star of the longest running science-fiction television series in the world. He can travel into the past as easily as into the future.
The best way to know the future for certain is to study biblical prophecy. You’ll know more than Dr. Who! God has unfolded a vast amount of information in Daniel, Ezekiel, Zechariah, Matthew 24, 1 and 2 Thessalonians, and Revelation. In fact, the entire Bible is one-fourth prophecy.
God has given us this top-secret information about the future for several reasons—to inform us, to reassure us, to encourage us, and, perhaps most importantly, to spur on our growth in holiness. We want to live in a way that glorifies Him, should He come today. Today, let’s remind ourselves that Jesus may come again before tomorrow’s sun rises and sets. And let’s live accordingly!
The end of creation is that the Creation might glorify [God]. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory He has displayed?
Jonathan Edwards
2 Peter 3:10-13
10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up.
11 Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people 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 destroyed by burning, and the elements will melt with intense heat! 13 But according to His promise we are looking for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.
Col 1:16-18
16 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. 17 And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
Ultimately, all things will bring glory to God, for He made them, and in Him they exist. We look to the promise of a future glory, living with God eternally, in a place prepared for those He chose before the foundation of the world, who came to Jesus through His gift of faith, sought and found forgiveness of sin and were given a pure and perfect righteousness in Christ. These are the eternal saints of God. I pray that you are among them. Let us always seek, good day or bad, to bring glory to God!
Pastor Dale