DAILY READINGS: Numbers 3; Psalms 148-150; Mark 13
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night…and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. 2 Peter 3:10
Talk about global warming! Our world and everything in it is temporary and soon to be dissolved, melted, burned up, finished…gone. It vividly reminds us of the temporary existence of earthly things. It makes you wonder why we so passionately expend our lives to attain things that will one day be burned up. So what does Peter want us to learn? Considering the world’s temporal nature, we should be people of “holy conduct and godliness” (3:11). —Sid Halsband
When this passing world is done, when has sunk yon glaring sun,
When I stand with Christ on high, looking o’er life’s history:
Then, Lord, shall I fully know, not till then, how much I owe. —R. M. M.