2 Peter 3:4-9

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“Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.”
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For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water,
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by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water.
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But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
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But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
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The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.

2 Peter 3:4-9, from today’s Epistle Reading.

Image: Floe Lake, Kootenay National Park. Dylan Gehlken.