II Peter 3:7-8

I am not going to go into technical aspects regarding this because there is a broad principal that I want to extract from it. The problem that Peter is talking about here occurs because mankind does not think in the same parameters as God in regard to time.

That is why this is given here. Do not forget that God does not think in the same parameters in regard to time as we do! That is so important in regard to faith and operation of faith, whether or not if we are going to be saved, whether or not we are going to be doing the right things, whether we are going to understand what it is that we are going through. Time moves frighteningly fast to us and we feel the need, the pressure, of fulfillment. We know that we are going to die. We feel as though life is slipping away. We feel as though our health is degenerating, society is degenerating. Our children are growing older and we feel responsibilities to them and to our mates that certain things ought to be accomplished. We feel the responsibility, the pressure to obey God. We want to enjoy pleasures, but always with time, our attitude toward time and our understanding of time, there is a certain measure of discouragement that tugs at us.

We are such that we get a concept in our mind and very rapidly, sometimes largely, solely because of time, it becomes a fact. We are so impatient it is incredible; we think and act as though all life hinges on what I do or what happens right now. The result, unfortunately, is that we act impulsively. And that creates a great deal of instability, not only in one's own life, but those who are in contact with those who are impulsive and impatient.

There may be hundreds of things associated with the passage of time that motivate us to do, or not to do, things in relation to God. They are things that serve to put us into bondage to time from which we will never be free until our faith is such that we know, and we are acting because we understand, that God is in control of time. It is never too late for God. He can resurrect us from the dead if need be. It is never too late.