After Peter warns us to live holy lives, he tells his readers, "but the end of all thinigs is at hand: therefore be serious and watchful in your prayers" (1 Peter 4:7). How can he be correct? It has been over 2,000 years since this text was written.
It is true that every generation of Christians have thought that Christ was coming before they die and yet every generation thus far has gone the way of all men.
Remember what Peter wrote earlier in this letter? "All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers aand its flower falls away, but the word of the Lord endures forever" (1 Peter 1:24-25).
The older we get the more we recognize how quickly our lives are over. Our end is indeed near, and we do not have time to waste.
