Fr. Mike Schmitz

And we can truly look at God the Father and say, he is our dad.

He's truly our father.

And that's something so, so important here in 2 Peter.

It's just, again, bonkers to realize this.

Now, Peter is writing to people who are saying, how come there's such a delay in God coming to us?

Jesus said he'd come back, but I haven't seen him.

Um, where is he?

And Peter says, essentially, don't consider this delay.

This is the final chapter, chapter three.

Do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord, one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years are as one day.

God's not slow about his promises, but he's forbearing, meaning he's not, he doesn't wish that anyone should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

The idea is that God is giving us more time so more people can repent.

But he says the day of the Lord will come like a thief.

So we have to be prepared.

We have to be ready for that day that's coming upon us.

In fact, there was something similar happening in St.

Paul's letter to the Thessalonians because what's happened for them is that they were concerned because people were dying and the Christians were dying and they thought, wait, shoot, does this mean that they won't be able to receive salvation?

the fullness of God's glory because they're already dead.

We're waiting, we're expecting Jesus to come back in our lifetimes.

But here is St.