Reading for November 29 is 2 Peter 2...
My thoughts on this reading...
While Peter urges his readers to grow in their faith and progressing in their knowledge of the Lord, in Chapter 2 he turns to a word of warning against false prophets that will rise up and seek to lead them away from the truth. He rehearses some of the past accounts of evil and ungodly things like the story of Noah or Sodom and Gomorrah, pointing out that the Lord can also rescue them from the trials that may be ahead for believers. He points out how the ones who are seeking to lead them astray have no regret in leading believers astray. He makes the kind of sad and tragic point that for those who know the way of truth in the Lord but have now forsaken it and been lost, it would have been better for them to have not known righteousness now that they have lost it. They find themselves wallowing in their filth and sin, much like a pig wallows in the mud Peter says. To be honest, this chapter is not a very hopeful or heartening chapter if you think about what it warns believers about, and points to what is lost.