Contemplative Bible Reading

2 Peter 3:5 (New Living Translation)

5 They deliberately forget that God made the heavens long ago by the word of his command, and he brought the earth out from the water and surrounded it with water.

Oops, slipped my mind. What is that guy’s name? I have known him for years, but can’t think of it. Funny how the mind works. Some things come and go and seem to go more often these days.

Such was not the case for the unbelievers that Peter described above. It didn’t “slip their mind” that God is the Creator. They deliberately forgot it. How do you “deliberately forget” something? How do you think about something enough and strongly enough to forget it? Perhaps something is lost in translation here.

Anyways, the attitude was to dismiss God. Just dismiss that creation was a miracle. It happened naturally somehow. Hmm, this sounds familiar in today’s world of science and hubris. We are just so smart today that, well, we seem to be just like these folks Peter described two thousand years ago.

God created the heavens and the earth. That takes faith to believe as I didn’t see it happen. Faith is an unusual thing. I can’t see faith. I can experience it inside, but it’s like creation. I believe creation happened.

And this is all giving me a headache this early in the morning. Thanks be to God for creation and everything since.