God Time

Read It: 2 Peter 3:8 (NRSV)

8 But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like one day. 

Learn It:

This passage is often taken literally to mean that there will be a reign of Christ for 1,000 years.  As we know though it has been longer than that since Christ died and rose again; in fact it has been almost double that since then.  This passage then is not a literal passage about when things might happen but is a passage about how we see time and God see time.  God sees the whole scope of what has happened in the past and where God wants the world to go.  God is trying to bring all things to God's self.  We see time as moving forward and God sees it more as drawing to.  I know this is a deep concept but I think it's helpful to understand that our time and God's time isn't quite the same thought process as ours is.

Share It:

Bring out a clock and time your conversation together today.  Have you ever experienced a time when a moment or an hour or some length of time seemed either much longer or much shorter than the time actually was?  Why do you think that happens?  Sometimes in our own lives time doesn't always seem to be equal even though we know that it is.  So if the passage isn't literal what do you think this verse is all about?  What message about God and about Jesus do you think the author is trying to convey?  The author is using this verse when talking about Jesus coming again; so with that in mind why do you think that he is saying these things? 

Live It:

Take this week and make sure you have a clock with you.  Spend some time this week in prayer and spend it in other various ways and see how much time might fly or slow down for you.  Think about the ways that we spend our time and see how this passage might relate to any or all of it.

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