By Greg Laurie
So I will always remind you of these things,
even though you know them and are firmly established in the truth you now have.
2 Peter 1:12
A number of years
ago, I received one of those dreaded notices in the mail. It was time for me to
take my driving test again. I thought, I've been driving for many years. I
don't think I need to read the manual again. When I showed up at the DMV
for my appointment, I was handed a written test. Some of the questions stumped
me a bit, but I thought I did reasonably well. I realized that I could only
miss three. I took my test back to the DMV employee and watched her as she
pulled out a red pen and, with great relish, began to look over my test. She
marked one . . . two, then three, four, five, six. . . .
"You have to take the test again," she told me.
I took it again and passed the test — barely. It was a humiliating experience. Because I have driven every day for years, I thought I knew all of the basics. But obviously I didn't. It reminded me that I don't necessarily know as much as I think I do.
There are things in life that we forget. That is one of the reasons Peter wrote his second epistle. He said, "Yes, I think it is right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you, knowing that shortly I must put off my tent, just as our Lord Jesus Christ showed me" (2 Peter 1:13-14). If you focus on these things that you should never forget, God says you will never stumble or fall (verse 10), and He will give you an abundant entrance into His kingdom.
"You have to take the test again," she told me.
I took it again and passed the test — barely. It was a humiliating experience. Because I have driven every day for years, I thought I knew all of the basics. But obviously I didn't. It reminded me that I don't necessarily know as much as I think I do.
There are things in life that we forget. That is one of the reasons Peter wrote his second epistle. He said, "Yes, I think it is right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you, knowing that shortly I must put off my tent, just as our Lord Jesus Christ showed me" (2 Peter 1:13-14). If you focus on these things that you should never forget, God says you will never stumble or fall (verse 10), and He will give you an abundant entrance into His kingdom.
