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Hasten the Day Live holy and godly lives as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming.  2Peter 3:11-12 December 17, 2015   Norman Visser For children, Christmas can’t come soon enough. They fidget while trying hard to be nice, and they wake each morning hoping the wait is over. As we grow older, we lose interest in hastening the day. Honestly we’d rather slow time down if we could. In our adult realism we wonder what Peter could possibly mean when he tells us to speed the coming of the day of God. Commentaries say that a Jewish tradition had grown from Isaiah 60:22, “I am the Lord; in its time I will do this swiftly.” This tradition wondered what would have to take place for God to act swiftly. One interpretation claimed that if everyone would be righteous for just one day, then the Messiah could come. Some of that thinking may lie behind Peter’s comment. Peter teaches that the day seems delayed to us because God does not want anyone to perish. Could it follow