Meditation
THE LORD KNOWS HOW TO DELIVER THE GODLY
Text: 2 Peter 2
22 September 2024
GOD’S JUDGMENT
Will there be a time when God will judge the world? The answer is a solemn Yes! We read about this reality in the following text:
4 For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;
5 and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly;
6 and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly;
7 and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked
8 (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds)—
9 then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment 2 Peter 2:4-9
- Fallen angels were not spared
- The ancient world was judged in the days of Noah
- So were Sodom and Gomorrah judged
Let us trust in the Lord even more completely!
GOD’S DELIVERANCE
God knows how to deliver the righteous. We live in a badly broken world and sometimes we may even have doubts about divine justice. The Lord will make a distinction between the just and the unrighteous.
OUR CHALLENGE
Let us be challenged to cultivate a life of righteousness. Let us not influenced by the world in any way!