hese instructions are not given in a vacuum, nor are they just the "right thing to do". They are given with understanding of the present times. Jesus has brought the day of salvation, today is the day of God's favour. So we are to be alert, not just to let life drift by.
Some might say it is two thousand years since Christ came, so how can the day be near? Peter reminds us that with God a day is like a thousand years and a thousand years like a day (2 Pet 3:8). And in view of eternity a thousand years is nothing, but the key point for our own lives is that we live as wise people, knowing that the day of darkness will not last forever. One day Christ will return and His rule visibly established over everything. We are to prepare for the coming kingdom, not the one that is passing away.So we are to do away with sinful acts, and to put on Christ, to live and think in a Christlike manner.
We are to live with an eternal perspective.
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