What type of person should you be? To answer that question, you need perspective. If this life is all there is, then I suppose the best thing would be to live it up and enjoy life as much as possible. Of course, God’s Word assures us that this world is not all there is. Thus, enjoying the pleasures of this world is not the highest good we can find.
In Second Peter three, the Bible tells us that our universe is going to come to and end someday. And it will end as part of God’s plan and judgment. With that in mind, verse 11 says “Since the whole universe is to dissolve in this way, think what sort of people you ought to be, what devout and dedicated lives you should live!”[1]
Are we the sort of people we should be? Are we holy and devout, living in consideration of and preparation for God’s coming judgment?
[1] REB