God’s Heart For The Lost
Scripture Reading: 2 Peter 3
Focus Verse: 2 Peter 3:9 “The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is long-suffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance."
God has a heart for those that are lost. God loves the lost and desires a relationship with them. God is also patient. Some lost people may think God will not judge their sin. The reality is that God does judge sin. He may be exercising His patience right now and giving them time to repent before His judgment falls on them. Could some believers think the same thing? What happens when a believer is living in sin? God can not have fellowship with those who love their sin and refuse to repent. God can not hear their prayers. God disciplines those he loves because He desires them to come back into a right relationship with Him through repentance. God is long suffering toward us.
Jesus gave us a great example of this in Luke 15 with the story of the prodigal son. The father gave the son enough freedom until the son hit the bottom of his life. The Bible says that the son came to his senses and returned to the father. Maybe you are living a life of sin and you don’t think God is concerned with your sin. Let me tell you God is concerned with your sin, and the only reason you are still on this earth is God is giving you time to come back to Him before it is too late. So let us love the things God loves, and hate the things that God hates, and take our sin as seriously as God takes it.
God is always patiently pursuing us.
Bobby Johnson
Interlocking Ministries
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