Monday, January 25, 2010

Scoffers are a Dime a Dozen

Peter tells us that scoffers are a dime a dozen. They taunt believers saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? “For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.” He says they purposely forget the power in just one Word of God. They assume extended time means the promise of his return will never be fulfilled. They do not realize what they are judging as meaningless passage of time is actually a demonstration of God’s mercy to allow them space to repent (2 Peter 3:1-9).

I think it was John Piper who told the story of a farmer who stopped going to church. He wrote in a letter to the editor of the local paper, ‘I’ve stopped going to church and have had the largest harvest ever. It pays not to go to church.” Another person wrote in the following day, “Tell the farmer God doesn’t close his all his books in October.”

Do not be deceived. God will not be mocked. What we sow, we will reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit shall from the Spirit reap eternal life (Galatians 6:7).