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September 20, 2011 — by C. P. Hia
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Read: 2 Peter 3:1-13
The Lord is not slack concerning His promise. —2 Peter 3:9
Bible in a year:
Ecclesiastes 4-6; 2 Corinthians 12
Many will remember the fall season of 2008 as the beginning of the worst fin
ancial crisis since the Great Depression of 1929. In the months to follow, m
any lost their jobs, homes, and investments. In a BBC interview a year later
, Alan Greenspan, former head of the US Federal Reserve, indicated that the
average person doesn’t believe it will happen again. He said, “That is the
unquenchable capability of human beings when confronted with long periods o
f prosperity to presume that it will continue.”
Assuming that things will continue as they always have is not just 21st-cent
ury-type thinking. In the first century, Peter wrote of people who thought t
hat life would continue as it was and that Jesus would not return. He said,
“Since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the b
eginning of creation” (2 Peter 3:4). Jesus said He would come back, but the
people continued to live in disobedience as though He would never return. B
ut His delay is only because of God’s patience with us, for He is “not wil
ling that any should perish but that all should come to repentance” (v.9).
Paul tells us that Christians ought to live “soberly, right-eously, and god
ly” in the light of Christ’s certain return. (Titus 2:12). Are you ready t
o meet Him?
Faithful and true would He find us here
If He should come today?
Watching in gladness and not in fear,
If He should come today? —Morris
Jesus may come any time, so we should be ready all the time.
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【在 Q*******e 的大作中提到】
: 2011-09-20
: 預備好了嗎？
: 读经: 彼得後書3章1-13節
: 主決不耽延祂的應許。—彼得後書3章9節，新譯本
: 索取表格
: 全年讀經: 傳道書4-6章 哥林多後書12章
: 多數人不會忘記，2008年秋季是繼1929年經濟大蕭條後，最嚴重的經濟危機。這段日子
: ，許多人失去工作、住處，以及投資的金錢。前任美國聯準會主席葛林斯班指出，人們
: 總以為經濟大蕭條不會再出現。他在2009年接受BBC電視台訪問時說：「當經歷了長時間
: 富裕的日子，人總會以為這情況會一直保持下去。這是無法扭轉的人性。」
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