Some in the early
church determined that there was no such thing as Christ’s ‘return,’ since it
hadn’t happened yet. Instead, they took a naturalist view of life and creation,
positing that God was mainly ‘hands off’ and that the world would simply always
continue on its course of time. Peter reminds us that there was a beginning and
that God has acted decisively within time and creation and will indeed do so
again. That Jesus has not returned is not a sign of his lack of concern, but
just the opposite, he is giving humanity more time because he doesn’t want any
to miss out on redemption. The call in this passage is to continue to live in
such a way as to prove that life and the time we’ve been given matters. In
other words, to live as though one day we will stand before God and give an
accounting of our lives.
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