“Therefore, beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, spotless and blameless, and regard the patience of our Lord {as} salvation; just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, as also in all {his} letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as {they do} also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.” (2 Pet 3:14-16, NAU)

    You want to know a secret? Everyone has questions they’d like to ask God. Who among us hasn’t wondered about the very same thing as little Norma? Even Peter thought Paul wrote some things that were difficult to understand. I suspect Peter had a thing or two he’d like to get cleared up in his own mind. If an apostle thinks some things are hard to understand, then I don’t feel so badly about those questions rolling around in my head.

Some people get so caught up in the questions, they never get anything settled.

    But some people get so caught up in the questions, they never get anything settled. Although Peter knew some things are difficult, when you read all he had to say it’s clear that his purpose was to encourage us to get the important things settled, do some consistent and serious growing in the grace and knowledge of the Lord, and secure ourselves against those who would twist things around and those who bombard us with teachings that destroy.

    When Paul wrote to the churches of Galatia he said:

“I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you by the grace of Christ, for a different gospel.” (Gal 1:6, NAU)