Waiting Forwardly

Meditations on

Staying In the Grace for Today 

October 10, 2025

Waiting Forwardly

But we are looking forward to the new heavens and new earth he has promised, a world filled with God’s righteousness.

2 Peter 3:13

I have the song, “Come Jesus Come” by CeCe Winans, in my music library, and recently, I’ve been playing it often. The last few months have contained so many tragedies, it is only natural to long for that time when our past will be washed by rivers of grace as God heals every hurt and rights every wrong. In my longing for Jesus’ promised coming again, I don’t ever want to lose sight that while I am waiting for these things to happen, I make every effort to be found living a peaceful life that is pure and blameless in his sight. (2 Peter 3:14)

Max Lucado, in his Book, When Christ Comes, uses the phrase, Waiting Forwardly, to describe the imperative of Saint Peter in verse 14. As we are called to keep one eye on the heavens in anticipation of Christ’s triumphant return, we are also called to keep one eye on our present environment. Peter notes in the following verse (15) that God’s patience in setting the time of Christ’s return “gives people time to be saved.” As we are comforted to know God is using this time to reach the unsaved, let us also remember the teaching of Saint Paul:

For “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” But how can they call on him to save them unless they believe in him? And how can they believe in him if they have never heard about him? And how can they hear about him unless someone tells them? (Romans 10:13-14)

My Takeaway: I am remembering the Biblical imperative; “let the redeemed of the Lord say so.” (Psalm 107) May this imperative guide me as I seek to wait forwardly for the Lord’s return.

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

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