2 Peter 3:15-16 “Bear in mind that our Lord’s patience means salvation, just as our brother Paul also wrote to you with the wisdom that God gave him. He writes the same way in all of his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain the same things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction. Therefore, dear friends, since you already know this, be on your guard so that you may not be carried away by the error of lawless men and fall from your secure position.”
Lord, You tell me to study to be an approved workman, not ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of truth. I find it fascinating here that Peter refers to Paul and his letters, and I can relate when he says about the Pauline Epistles. Paul wrote like the scholar he was. Peter was more direct in his letters because he was a fisherman. He was not ignorant because of Your wisdom…just like Paul which put them on the same standing with each other as apostles. He equates Paul’s letters with Scripture here, authenticating his letters to those to whom Peter is writing.
Lord, the most important thing here is that Peter mentions that Your patience is salvation and we are to ever be on our guard against false teachers that would draw us away from the truth. Please, dear Lord, protect my mind and heart from false teaching. Make me a Barean when I hear a “preacher/teacher” from anywhere say anything. Make me compare scripture with scripture to make sure what they are saying fits the truth before I believe it.
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