We get the impression that life is compartmentalised into spiritual things over here and secular, practical things here, and they never interact, God doesn’t work in the real world.

The Bible shows us that everything in life is spiritual. Therefore the only solution to life is spiritual. God changes things.

God created the world with purpose that nothing can erase: it’s made for judgment.

He created time, too. Time has a purpose: to prepare us for eternity.

Why does this world exist? What’s the purpose? People have become more or less accustomed to the idea that it just happened by accident.

We’re supposed to guard ourselves against false teachers. How do you identify a false teacher? Do you really have to go through all the teaching with a fine-toothed comb, looking for false teaching like it was lice?

That’s too much work.

Peter wants his readers to be have abundant entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ. One of the dangers barring our entrance is the temptation of false teaching that appeals to our natural self- centeredness.

Joanie and I had coffee with friends who are musicians and we were talking about counterfeit instruments, like counterfeit Stradivarius violins and counterfeit 1959 Gibson Les Paul electric guitars. Worth millions if they are real, not so much if they are fake.

To others it might seem unimportant to enter a kingdom that hasn’t been established yet. But Peter says, it will be established. Enter into it now.

Somehow I remember what I have to do if I’m really into it. I don’t have a problem remembering guitar stuff. I really like guitars. I don’t have a problem with getting excited about my birthday. I’m into me.

Peter says in your faith, supply yourself with the nature of God.

You could get overwhelmed and say, “Where am I going to get that? I don’t have any of those things he’s talking about. He’s demanding too much of me. I can’t do this.”

Christianity is God working in us with divine power to do what we don’t expect.