Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace. And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures. You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability. But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
(2 Peter 3:14-18 ESV)
Let the patience of the Lord be your salvation! Jesus is patient that all should come to know who He is, that we all find our way back home. But how?
We are to be found without spot or blemish and at peace… Seems a pretty tall order. Considering it seems like everyday we are doing something to make us be spotty, or get another blemish and are we at peace? And that begs the question, by who’s understanding our we spotless, or blemish free, and who are we at peace with?
Is this Peter’s understanding? Because there was a time when Peter said that is a Greek was not circumcised that was a spot or a blemish. And there was little peace for a while among the disciples on this subject. Look at Acts to see the fighting that went on about those who are not Jews, and how they can become Christians.
I think one of the most powerful people in your life would have something to say about this. That person is you. Others will say how good you are and the wonderful things you have done, but you know all of your past. You know all of your wrongs.
Are you at peace with yourself? We often fight with ourselves and can’t see beyond our own faults and failings to do anything different then we always have. God came and paid the price though, and loves us as we are and frees us to do wonderful things.
I was watching the Prince of Egypt last night and there is a seen where Jethro says that Moses is there honored guest. Moses says he has done nothing worthy of honor, yet he has freed Jethro’s daughter from Egypt and has saved his other daughters from bandits. It is all in how we see it, and according to Jethro we have to look at our lives through heavens eyes. We have to see us through God’s eyes…
So look at your life through the eyes of God and allow Him to work in and through you to do wonderful things. Knowing that He has paid for the cleaning to make you spotless and without blemish and He has a peace for you, so that you may learn more about Him, and receive an abundance of grace that you can go and share with others.
So look at your life through God’s eyes!
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