Your Living Answer!
"Knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last
days, walking according to their own lusts, and saying,
“Where is the promise of His coming?”
2 Peter 3: 3-4
Most of us rarely encounter scoffers—those who berate
and ridicule Christians openly for their faith. Those who
involved in front-line evangelism see
scoffers regularly
and are gifted to respond to such attacks. Peter, in the
first century, prepared readers to be challenged about
the Lord’s Second Coming.
Even if we're not openly challenged about the tenets of our faith,
non-Christians keep a close eye on believers as they go through
times of darkness and suffering. While they may offer sympathy
and comfort on one hand, on the other, they may be thinking to
themselves, “Where is the promise of God’s help for His people
when they're suffering?” Even when we can’t answer in specifics
about our circumstances, we can answer in specifics by our life.
When we manifest hope and faith and endurance in the midst of
suffering, it is evidence of a power working in and through us.
Faith is “evidence of things not seen” (Hebrews 11:1).
When others see our faith, they're able to understand
our reasons for faith (1 Peter 3:15-16).
"A Christian’s faith upholds him under all trials,
by assuring him that every dispensation is
under the direction of his Lord."
John Newton
