The Apostle Peter wrote that the heavens will be destroyed with a great noise and great heat and everything on this earth will be burned up. That's quite a picture, isn't it?
I wonder if we actually believe it. We talk fearfully of super volcanoes and earthquakes and polar shifts and even asteroids, but what about the one thing that will change everything?
Peter also says this will happen "as a thief in the night" and if we take that literally, and remember Jesus' words "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away." (Matthew 23:35) then we have to believe that some day in the not too distant future, there will be a calamity so huge that the earth and everything in it, including humans, will be destroyed.
We can trust God completely through this, because He is waiting for the perfect time to rescue us and take us to our new home. This new home is real. We will see a new sky above us, with new stars and maybe a new sun. We will be on a new planet of sorts, created by God especially for us. (John 14: 2-3)
Will that "planet" be like this one? No, I don't think so. It will hold a form of life that we partake in right now but we understand so little of. God may recover and renew our bodies but we will be much more than we are now because we will be like Him and then we will know what we are.
John 1 3:2 says,
Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.
Knowing these things, that the earth and everything in it will be destroyed, why do we spend our lives chasing after what the world offers? In a second, "in the twinkling of an eye" (I Corinthians 15:2) it's going to all be gone. Only what is in Christ will remain.
