Are there any areas of your life where someone close to you might describe you as being

diligent in that area? That we're diligent is the word we're going to focus in on today as we read

2nd Peter chapter 3 verse number 14. get out your Bibles we're going to be

looking at that in just a moment this is the morning mindset if you're new to the morning

mindset welcome we are here to get our minds aligned with the truth of God's word for this day

let's think about just the next 24 hours let's live with our minds aligned with the truth so that we

can be diligent followers of Jesus Christ. We're going to get to 2. Peter 314 in just a moment,

but before we do, I want to make you aware of a resource that might be beneficial to you if you

are fairly new to the Christian faith or know someone who is.

I've created a workbook called Moving Toward God that's 19 lessons that can help you learn

and ground yourself in the basics of the Christian faith.

Go to morning mindsetmedia.com slash mtig for moving toward God and you will find a workbook right

there. Okay friends, 2nd Peter 314 is our target and we are going to pray before we get there.

So Lord, give us your wisdom, give us insight into what you're saying to us today, and guide us by your

Holy Spirit to apply this in His strength and not our own. We ask it in Jesus' name, amen.

All right, friends, now Peter has been describing for us something he refers to as the day of the

Lord. It's a day of judgment that's coming in the future

when God will judge heaven and earth and everyone in heaven and earth, and everything will be

made new. He's just talked about that in the previous verses, and here in verse 14, he says,

therefore, beloved,

so remember, anytime a biblical writer uses the word, therefore, he's pointing backward to what

he just said. So he's saying, in light of all those things that I just talked about, he says,

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