Thoughts for another day

April 13, 2010

Today's verse: 2 Pet. 3:13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. (KJV)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)

In the world we aren’t to be satisfied or treat things as if they’re permanent. Some of man’s most permanent things just crumbled and faded away. Over the years, kings perished, powerful dynasties considered invincible, slipped into the crucible of oblivion. Big, mighty and tenacious businesses just shrank under the carpet. We see that we never get to a point of comfort in the world because the world affords no comfort. When we achieve what seemed unachievable we’re happy; but the bar is then raised a little higher dissipating our happiness and now something else seems to be our goal to satiate our hunger for more.

Satisfaction is just a mirage and happiness and peace without Christ are mere illusions covering a bit of time in our lives and then fading. Therefore, looking forward to the things of God serves to keep our senses above water and also provides manna to our souls. Our verse today comes with the assurance of the new heavens and a new earth where dwells righteousness and if I may add, all things that are of God. The shackles that the world gives us are broken in that world and disease and pain cease to be.

What is in that world is righteousness. We are eligible for that world for Jesus Christ died for us and gave us the cloak of His righteousness. When we accept and wear this cloak, we stand with the righteousness of Jesus Himself and thus gain entry into the Kingdom of heaven which might as well be on earth, which is renewed and God filled. The fulfillment of our scripture is slated to be in the future as Peter explains, in the coming of the day of the Lord. When this happens, the existing heaven will dissolve and melt yet, we can still have His kingdom on earth where we abide by His will. In this, we no longer remain what we were earlier but changed. In the change, no human contagion affects us for it does not bother us. People around will be the same, yet we aren’t affected because we’re focused on Jesus and seek His face. In that we will enjoy the benefits of the kingdom which are righteousness and peace.