Daily
Devotional

Recently, I thought of an excellent subject for the next devotional I might be asked to write. Unfortunately, I neglected to write the idea down at the time, and so when I sat down at my computer I did not have the faintest recollection of what that subject was. Has anything like that ever happened to you?

Frustrated, I opened a search engine on the internet and typed: “I want to know about memory loss.” The search quickly found 45,600,000 web pages mentioning the subject. Evidently, memory loss is a subject of tremendous interest in the world today! Some calculations told me that if I were to look through one of those articles every ten seconds for eight hours a day, it would take over forty-three years just to scan them. By that time I would have forgotten everything I had read anyway!

My wife and I appear to be getting increasingly more forgetful as we grow older. We have become careful not to comment unduly when the other forgets something because we know that on the next occasion, the roles likely will be reversed! We also try to remind each other of upcoming appointments, even though the other is fully aware of the scheduled event, because we do not want to take the chance of forgetting.

In our focus verse, Peter said he wanted to remind his readers of the importance of having Christian qualities abounding in their lives. Even though these people were already reflecting such qualities, Peter did not want to risk the chance that they might forget. He took every precaution he could because he knew that those Christian attributes ensure our “entrance . . . into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ” (2 Peter 1:11). That is something we cannot afford to forget!

The greatest appointment of all time is approaching, and because we do not know the day or the hour of that appointment, we must always be ready for it. We want to continually remind ourselves and each other of what it will take to be ready.