2 Peter 1:12-15

Peter Emphasises His Willingness To Continue Exhorting Them, and The Rightness Of Doing So, And He Promises That He Will Pursue It With True Diligence (2 Peter 1:12)

Peter now stresses his readiness and eagerness to fulfil Jesus command to him to ‘Feed My sheep' (John 21:15). Compare 1 Peter 5:1. He is always ready (2 Peter 1:12), for he thinks it is right for him while he is in his body (his tent) continually to stir them up (2 Peter 1:13), because he wants to be sure that they will remember these things once he has gone (2 Peter 1:15).

We should note here Peter's emphasis on the fact that they might have these things that he has been pointing to (2 Peter 1:3) in remembrance. He mentions remembrance three times. He is ready always to put them in remembrance (2 Peter 1:12), he desires to continually stir them up by putting them in remembrance (2 Peter 1:13), and he wants to ensure that they will be able to call these things to remembrance after he has gone (2 Peter 1:15). Remembrance is very important. That was why Jesus instituted the Lord's Supper, ‘do this in remembrance of Me' (Luke 22:19; 1 Corinthians 11:25). For no remembrance is more important than to remember Him Who has called them in His own glory and excellence (2 Peter 1:3).