When we refer to a time when someone was or is at their peak performance, a time better for them than other times, or when everything seems to be going their way, we attribute ownership of a day to that person. We say things like, “In her day,” “In my day,” or even “This is your day.” We set aside days like Father’s Day and Mother’s Day to honor and give deference to certain people.

The Bible has much to say about The Day of the Lord. Although God is always in control, there is a designated time in the future when things will really be going His way, and that Day, the Scripture tells us will be a time of judgment. In Isaiah 13:9, we read,

Behold, the day of the Lord comes, cruel, with both wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate; and He will destroy its sinners from it.

2 Peter 3:10 tells us that

…the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.

When God has His day, worldly things will meet their demise. This should tell us a great deal about His holiness. “Be holy as I am holy,” the Lord says. In this age of His grace, we would do best to pursue holiness now. Surely, sin will be present with us while we inhabit these mortal bodies, but we should endeavor, as Romans 8:13 admonishes us, to through the Sprit, put to death the deeds of the flesh.