Charles Spurgeon Commentary 2 Peter 3:8

"But forget not this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day." — 2 Peter 3:8 (ASV)

But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

There are no years to Him; there are no days to the great Ancient of Days. A thousand years must seem to be a mere speck in comparison with His everlasting existence—as a dream when one awakens, it has swiftly passed away; but God still remains.

But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

You are in a hurry; you do not understand the infinite leisure of the Eternal One. The wondrous system of divine grace seems to have hardly room and scope enough in the few years that people give to it by their prophetic calculations; but God's prophecies are being fulfilled to the very letter. It may be that the length of time for their accomplishment will be far greater than any have imagined, yet to God it will still be a very little while.

One day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. We cry, "How long? how long?" Yet, according to God's reckoning, it is only the day before yesterday that Christ died, and only about a week ago that Adam was expelled from Eden.

A thousand years is, after all, a very brief space of time. If it is measured by our life, it seems long; but what is the life of a man? Measured other ways—and there are many other modes of measurement—it grows even longer; but measured by the eternity of God, it is a vanishing point altogether, there seems to be nothing left of it.