Monthly Archives: December 2016

Job 28

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“But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding? … God understands the way to it, and he knows its place. For he looks to the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens”

Job responds to Bildad the Shuhite statements that man is a maggot, and that man cannot “be in the right before God” by asserting that he is righteous and has done nothing deserving of his current suffering.

Mankind can mine the earth for precious stones and minerals, dams rivers and searches oceans, but wisdom cannot be found there.  God created the earth, established weather patterns and boundaries for the oceans.  He sees everything. This mighty being revealed to man the place to find wisdom, “Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding”

2 Peter 3

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Peter continues the theme of growth, “grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” We have an opportunity now, “waiting for… the coming of the day of God”. That day seems to be slow in coming, but really God is being patient, giving us time to grow and repent.

Just as people scoffed at the idea of a flood, so today people scoff at the idea of the return of Christ. Peter warns us not to be deceived by this thinking, remembering that “the day of the Lord will come like a thief”. In the mean time, lets “be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace.”

2 Peter 1-2

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God has offered us “precious and very great promises”, in response we should develop our faith into love. Failure to do so is blindness, forgetting we were cleaned from sin.  If we practice these qualities we “will never fall”. Peter speaks as an eyewitness, in contrast to false prophets with destructive ideas.

God knows “how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgement”. We have “escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ”, but we must be careful not to become “slaves of corruption” once more.