“[I]n accordance with his promise, we wait for new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness is at home. Therefore, beloved, while you are waiting for these things, strive to be found by him at peace, without spot or blemish; and regard the patience of the Lord as salvation….There are some things in [Paul’s letters] hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other scriptures. You therefore, beloved, since you are forewarned, beware that you are not carried away with the error of the lawless and lose your own stability. But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (2 Peter 3:13-18).

Friends, as I go about my day, listening to the news and talk radio, I have been inundated with more seemingly unbelievable developments in our culture. From Planned Parenthood opening mobile abortion clinics around the country to transgender kids being allowed free use of formerly single-sex locker rooms to universities mandating masks even if a single student or professor desires it, the world is obviously more upside-down than ever. We are, indeed, surrounded by ignorance, instability, and moral chaos.

I admit it sometimes seems like too much to bear. This is when we turn to the Scriptures and allow God to remind us of the Truth. We are called to “wait for new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness is at home.” In the meantime, though, let us seek “patience,” as well as the fortitude to live in this world prudently and charitably. Let the “grace and knowledge of…Christ” strengthen us as we serve others in a world where confusion and suffering abound.