Saturday Reading: 2 Peter 2:4-10
Key Verse: 2 Peter 2:4
4 For if God did not spare sinning angels, but thrust them down into Tartarus, and delivered them into chains of darkness, being reserved to judgment.
Devotion:
In the world that we live in today we seem to be able to get away with all manner of things without being either found out or blamed; but that is because we live in a world where many people’s eyes are closed to the truth! The one thing that we can be sure of is that God is JUST! That means that every little things that we do wrong will count against us, but equally everything that we do right will count towards us. Unfortunately for us, the penalty for the things we do wrong is not good.
Over the ages we have seen what God has done to people who simply turn their backs on Him and go after their own ways, working against Him in everything they do. The major things are listed in this passage with death and destruction coming to everyone who worked against God. But it is the first verse that I want to take note of. God created the angels to do His work. He created them with special powers... He created them with the knowledge of who He is so that they did not have to learn about Him to start with. And yet, those angels that dared to sin against Him were judged in the same manner as man will be judged.
We will not get away with things when we face God. He is watching everything that we do and He will deliver the exacting judgement for each of us that is due to us. But because of His outstanding love for us He gave us His Son to pay for our sins. We have the chance to turn to face the truth, to believe in what He has done and to say sorry for what we do. When we do that, Christ is willing to forgive us from our sins and to then present us blameless before God. That is when we will be sure that we will have eternal life because that is what He has promised – and He never changes His promises!
Points to Ponder:
Do you get away with things?
Do you know God cannot ignore your sins?
