Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace.
2 Peter 3:14
The “these” that Christians are waiting for here are the “new heavens and a new earth in which righteous dwells” described in 2 Peter 3:13. The hope of God’s great reboot of the universe keeps Christians diligent. It is a motivation for holiness. It is a reason we seek to be a people of peace. God will make all things new. And it begins with us. The future will be great. Our hope for that starts now with serious gospel living on our part right now. We long for heaven. We live and experience that hope right now.
So many people conceive of this kind of future hope as a vague optimism. But it is a firm prophetic reality repeated over and over in scripture. The old order of things will be burned away in judgment. And a new universal beauty will be brought into being by our Creator to take its place. What God melts away will be completely redeemed and remade. And it for this future that we find hope in Christ.
Lord,
All things shall be made new, just as You are right now renewing me in Jesus. Help me to long for this new heavens and earth where only Your righteousness dwells. Keep me seriously at work on being the man You are making of me, living my life in this day, well aware of that day which will come.
Amen
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