Are You Ready & Willing?

 

"The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, 

as some count slackness, but is longsuffering 

toward us, not willing that any should perish 

but that all should come to repentance."

2 Peter 3:9

 

A leper approached Jesus and said, “If You are 

willing, You can make me clean.” Jesus touched

 the man, saying, “I am willing; be cleansed” and 

he was healed. (Mark 1: 40-42)

 

That event is a beautiful example of the willingness of God. 

In fact, there are no instances of Jesus being asked to help 

or heal and Him answer, “I am not willing.” There is a place 

where Bible says God is “not willing,” and that's 2 Peter 3:9. 

In writing about the timing of the Day of the Lord (the end of 

the age), Peter says God is waiting for all who will be saved 

to come to Him. He is “not willing that any should perish but 

that all should come to repentance.” Said another way, God 

is more than willing for any who want to be saved to come 

to Him (John 6:37; 7:37). The question is never whether 

God is willing but whether man is willing.

 

Have you responded to God’s 

willing invitation to come to Him?

 

"God is far more willing to save 

sinners than sinners are to be saved."

J. C. Ryle