A Wake Up Call

2 Peter 3:1–9

“1 Beloved, I now write to you this second epistle (in both of which I stir up your pure minds by way of reminder), 2 that you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior, 3 knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, 4 and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.” 5 For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water, 6 by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water. 7 But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. 8 But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.”

Introduction

We can all use a reminder every now and then. Some of us have notes we write ourselves to remind us to do something. Some of us have alarms on our mobile devices to remind us we have to be somewhere. We have calendars and a loved one or two we ask to remind us of something. When we stay in hotels, we even have the desk to give us a wake up call so we don’t oversleep.

Today is a wake up call in case any of us have gone to sleep and become less watchful than what God’s word tells us to be.