Refresh my Memory

598.  "Refresh my Memory"            September 3, 2012
2 Peter 3-Part 1
This is my second letter to you, dear freiends, and both of them I have tried to stimulate your wholesome thinking and refresh your memory.  2 Peter 3:1  NLT

LET IT GLOW

I needed to refresh my memory. Yesterday, my husband and I went to our fortieth year high school reunion. (We were in the same graduating class.) It is hard to believe that 40 years has passed since we graduated. It was wonderful to see old friends and classmates. One thing I noticed at this reunion that was different from the others was that there was not so much talk about our good ole school days, but we were catching up on what we had all been doing, We talked about our families, jobs, parents, etc. But as we talked, we watched  videos of other reunions and tried to remember what years they took place. Finally, as the dozen people refreshed our memories, we were able to figure it all out.
I suggested we not wait ten years to have the next one, but meet again in five. We are getting older and loosing our classmates and our memory.

What was Peter writing to his readers about in chapter 3? He was:

• trying to  refresh their memory,
• stimulate their wholesome thinking,
• cause them to remember what the prophets said long ago,
• job their memory of what their Lord and Savior had commanded,
• remind them that scoffers will come in the last day,
• realize that the Lord is not really being slow about His promise to return.

Sometimes I need to be reminded of things. Sometimes I need help in remembering things. Sometimes I need  to refresh my memory. How about you?

LET IT GROW

In verse 3, Peter reminds us that scoffers will come. Scoffers are mockers, ridiculers.
What are they mocking and doing?

• the truth(verse 3),
• asking what happened to the promise that Jesus is coming again (verse 4),
• deliberately forgetting that God made the heavens by the word of His command, bringing the land out of the water (verse 5),
• forgetting that God used the water to destroy the ancient world with a mighty flood (verse 6),
• by the same word, the present heavens and earth have been stored up for fire, kept for the day of judgment, when ungodly people will be destroyed (verse 7),

Do I allow scoffers to lesson my faith in Jesus' return? To discourage me? Or am I standing on His promises? Are they truth to me?

LET IT GO

Refresh my memory every day in the Word of God.

Keep looking for Jesus' return and be ever ready.

Remind others that He is coming again. Help them get ready.