Devotions: Perfect Timing

The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.

2 Peter 3:9 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

This “promise” is again referring to Christ’s return, the time when He will make all things new permanently. The world has been waiting for centuries and none knows when it will happen. Sometimes we wonder if it really will, as long as it is taking, but Peter wanted to encourage us. The previous verse said that time is different to Him than it is to us. He is not bound by time, so it does not affect God like it does us. And He is not being “slow”, or avoiding, fulfilling that promise. He is waiting for the last possible person to be saved. He doesn’t want anyone to perish unnecessarily. When the time is right, when the last person has given their life to Him, then He will return and make everything new. Don’t give up! Trust in His promise!

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