Contemplative Bible Reading

2 Peter 3:3 (New International Version)

First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.

This struck me as one of those obvious things. Scoffers will come and they will be scoffing. Well, what else what a scoffer do? (By the way, to scoff is to to speak derisively; mock; jeer.)

This brings to mind the relationships among words that we use, but don’t often realize or admit. For example, if a person lies (does not tell the truth), that person is a liar. Whoa, that is a tough label to assign to someone, but that is the definition. The Bible talks of liars.

Another type of person in the Bible is a divisive person. I have heard of lots of people called divisive, but a divisive person is one who divides things. A person who disagrees with you isn’t a divisive person because they merely disagree. If you tell them to leave because you cannot abide being near a person who disagrees, then you are a divisive person because you are dividing.

Strange how some words are.