God’s Longsuffering Is Salvation

"And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation." II Peter 3:15 Peter is ending his letter to some new Christians with an appeal that they stand fast and endure. He does not want to see them despair and give up. There is evidence that some of them had already become faint and had not endured (16). The danger is that they would be "led away" and "fall from [their] own steadfastness" (17). The key to practicing the virtue of patient endurance (strength and stability) is the...