2 Peter 3:9

"The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance."
2 Peter 3:9


I think this is great... God isn't a slacker. :)  And he is definitely patient with us, through all of our mistakes and our misjudgments and our rebellions.  He wants us all, no matter where we are, to come back to him... because he truly loves us, and wants us with him.  I think that too often it is easy to see God as some huge impersonal policeman, who doesn't care about us personally... only about what we do, and given any chance at all, he would love to punish us for breaking some arbitrary "rules" that only he knows about.  But that isn't true at all.  God probably does know the rules a lot better than we do... but it isn't because he is trying to catch us.  He is truly a father... trying to teach us traffic laws so that we don't get killed taking the car for a spin on our sixteenth birthday.  And just learning that there are other cars around is a pretty big lesson for some of us.  The bigger problem for us is that the traffic laws that we are learning aren't just for roads... they are for universes, and spaceships, and how to avoid interpersonal collisions... and how to live your dreams, and how to love, and how to be happy, and how to get in contact with Dad in case of an emergency.  Our Father is the wisest Dad around, and he knows the answers to ANY question... including "why is the sky blue" and "why me?"  He wants us all to come to repentance, to feel and see the goodness and the beauty in our lives... to be happy.  And, he doesn't just say that he wants that.  he helps us to get there.  Ask him anything.  He wants to help.