Thoughts From 2 Peter - Day 18

 Above all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. 4 They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised? Ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.” 5 But they deliberately forget that long ago by God’s word the heavens came into being and the earth was formed out of water and by water. 6 By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed.  2 Peter 3:3-6

         Forty-five years ago, when I was doing a rotation in anesthesiology in medical school, the anesthesiologist described his job as 30 seconds of terror followed by 90 minutes of boredom followed by 30 seconds of terror. In other words, a lot can go wrong in a hurry while putting people to sleep and waking them up but keeping them asleep is just turning on the ventilator and gases and reading an Outdoor Living magazine.

        We are living in the ventilator stage and have been for quite some time. In fact, it has been so long that people/scoffers think it has always been this way. Peter says, no, you are deliberately forgetting that before God set this world, the Laws of nature, the rotation of the Earth, the hydrologic system and all the other scientific discoveries that enable us to tell what time the sun will rise and set, the tides will be high and low, and bad weather is rolling in tomorrow at 4PM - before all that there was seven days of creation of everything in unexplainable means like we've never seen before. Then one to two thousand years later, there was a massive upheaval of the creation with the buried waters underneath the surface of the earth ripped open the earth's core recreating and flooding the surface of the Earth and seeding the canopy above causing rain for 40 days and collapsing the greenhouse effect creating the climate differentials we see throughout the Earth today.

       We are in the time when things seem to be going on as always thus, we have problems believing all that Creation Ex Nihlo stuff, worldwide flood with animals 2x2 on an ark, not to mention Virgin Birth, resurrection, walking on water, etc. because we have developed scientific laws that don't allow for that. The problem is that these Laws are for a closed system, but we have a God that periodically "sticks His hand" inside this closed system and blows our mind. Frankly we wish He would do it every time we pray for a loved one with cancer but in His wisdom, He usually chooses to let the Laws He put in place to run their course. But there is coming a day when He will jump into our closed system and we will see Him in the clouds and with the shout of a trumpet, the dead believers in Christ will rise first and we who remain will be caught up in the air to meet Him.

      Don't let the fact that we've never seen something created out of nothing or feeding 5000 people from 5 loaves and 2 fish happen. There is a God who can violate all Laws of Nature and He will soon. Stop scoffing and start believing!