2 Peter 3:14-18
Final Words
14 Therefore,
beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace. 15 And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother
Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, 16 as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand,
which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures. 17 You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away
with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability. 18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity.
Amen.
Our Lord’s patience is essential to our salvation in the sense that He is giving us time to repent. Do we use the time allotted
to us to take sin and salvation seriously, or do we neglect our worship and prayers and our Lord’s gracious call to repent? Make daily repentance part of your life. The patient Lord is ever working through Word and Sacrament to restore fallen sinners
and to strengthen them in the stability of their salvation.
I pray: O Lord, come to me, and strengthen me through Your Word, that I may grow in Your grace
and knowledge and proclaim Your glory forever. Amen.[1]