God is long suffering

2Pe 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
2Pe 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Be NOT ignorant of this ONE thing.
ONE DAY is with the LORD -
-as a THOUSAND YEARS.
And
A THOUSAND YEARS-
-as ONE DAY.

We cannot allow ourselves to imagine God on our time, He does NOT live in time as we know it.
A thousand years to us who live a measly 70-80 years, some more some less, is a long, long, long time! The number of people who have lived during the almost 6000 years earth has existed is in the billions more? And yet a thousand years to our God is as ONE DAY.

Time is NOT measured by God as it is by us, it just isn't and we cannot allow ourselves to forget this. When we pull God down into our time we try to put our humanity onto Him and that's impossible!

We might be tempted to say that God is taking TOO long to make good on His promise of our Savior's return but that wouldn't be true at all. There is no such thing as taking TOO long with our Savior. When we say God is taking too long we are doubting Him, we are doubting His goodness, we are doubting His love for us.

The Lord might seem slack to us who have witnessed the history of millions pass by over the last 2000 years living without seeing His return. We know that many, many generations have lived and died without witnessing the long awaited return and we have the fear that we too will live and die without witnessing the coming of our Savior- it's a very real possibility. We see the signs, but many have seen the signs. We cannot count God as being slack concerning the promise of His return.

God waits because He is LONG SUFFERING.

If God weren't long suffering then He would have ended things long, long ago.

God doesn't want us to perish.

God wants us ALL to realize our need to repent and in repenting, seek forgiveness and accept Him as our Lord and Savior! God wants us all saved in His love, His amazing love!

Please Lord, please help us to come to repentance in You, all in You.

Help us to please accept You Lord, and accept that all things done in Your time are done at the right time.

Please Lord, bless us to that acceptance all in YOU, in YOUR love!