If all your stuff; everything you own & hold dear was to be stacked up and burned how would you feel? Books, clothes, TV, pets, jobs, cars, houses. . .Everything, just in a huge pile and destroyed!The Bible tells us that there will be a day when everything is dissolved, burned up and destroyed. Marriage will be no more, money will vanish (i know; it feels like it already does), cars all burnt out, the final whistle blown on all sport, no sex, no pets, no designer clothes, Macs & PCs will all crash into non-existence, everything, destroyed by Jesus!
How we feel about Jesus coming, & destroying all that we know in this world reveals something very important about our hearts. When we think of The Day of the Lord when the universe will pass away with a roar, do we feel sorrow over the loss that we will experience, or joy over Jesus coming?
If we sorrow over loss, we reveal that we are idolaters! We look to our stuff more than we look to Christ & long for things of this life more than we long for His coming.
Peter encourages us here in 2Peter 3:11 when he asks:
Since all these things are thus to be dissolved (the earth & our stuff), what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness?
Since we know that Jesus is coming back, the world will dissolve, burn up & give way to the new Earth in which Jesus will be the object of all our worship & joy, we ought to 'reverse engineer our life & live for that day. Look where we're heading & gear our lives now around that future destination.
*This post was written as notes & an overflow of listeng Mark Driscoll's sermon 'Perseverance until the new creation.
