God’s not kidding… judgment will come to those who don’t honor Him. Salvation will come to those who do. Such is the message of this chapter. Peter seems to be saying, ‘hang in there’. God will settle the score in His time. He did in the past and He will in the future.
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others; if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)— if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment (4-9).
Sometimes I don’t want to do what I know God wants me to do. Sometimes I don’t want to be faithful. Sometimes I am tired. It is just for those times that Peter’s words work to encourage me, to keep on faithfully believing and living… to keep on being faithful to my Lord, Jesus.
God protected Noah. God rescued
Lord, I will keep on. Lord, I am Yours now and always. Amen.
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