With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.

Peter shares this brief insight into how the Lord regards time. I always wonder what these phrases might allude to—so many questions start to pop in my head.

I’ve experienced days that felt like a thousand years, and meetings that felt like two thousand.

A day like a thousand years—does the Lord stretch time? I’ve heard it taught that the Lord works outside of time, but here it seems the Lord twists a day like silly putty into anything he wishes. I also wonder if this means that the Lord accomplishes more in one single day than I could do in a thousand years?

Flip it over, and we learn that to the Lord, a thousand years are like a single day. Which makes a bit more sense to me, as God scans history from his place as the Creator of it all.

With this time scale in mind, I realize it’s been two thousand years—2 God days—since the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. As I recall, on the third day Jesus emerged into glory, stepping out of death into life.

So I wonder, as we move into the third thousand years since Jesus rose, what will God day #3 bring our way?

2 Peter 3 in week forty-two of reading the Bible cover to cover

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