Psalm 119:153-160  The psalmist calls out to The Lord,  "rescue me", "revive me"..... because "Great are Your mercies, O Lord."  The Word of God is his foundation, it is his hope, it is his path, for it is Truth.  Because he has not forgotten God's law, because he has loved and sought and obeyed,  he can rest on the promises of the Word.
In contrast the unbelievers, "the wicked", do not seek God's Word, and "salvation is far from them".  They are "treacherous".  They are persecutors and adversaries of the believer.
To find help in times of trouble, I look to You, O Lord.  In You I find my help. "Rescue for sinners, ransom from Heaven".  You are my Deliverer, my Strength, my Fortress.  In Your Word I find Life and I am revived. In Your mercy and love, I find hope.  Thank You Lord.

II Peter 2-3
 Peter warns us to "remember the words spoken beforehand by the holy prophets and the commandment of The Lord and Savior spoken by the apostles." (3:2)   For the Day of Judgement will come and we must be "diligent to be found by Him in peace, spotless and blameless." (v 14). In contrast Peter gives us a detailed list of the character and actions of the false teachers;
They "secretly introduce destructive heresies" ( 2:1)
They deny Jesus. "the Master who bought them"
They lead others into sensuality.
They bring disgrace upon the "way of truth" (v2)
They greedily exploit others with lies. (3)
They "indulge the flesh" (v10)
They despise authority.
They are "daring, self-willed"
They boldly "revile angelic majesties", "reviling where they have no knowledge" (v10.12)
They suffer wrong because they do wrong.
They revel even in the day time. (v13)
"They are stains and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, as they carouse with you."
They are full of adultery, sin, enticing, unstable souls, greedy, accursed.(v14)
They forsake the right way.  They go astray.
They speak "arrogant words of vanity".
They are corrupt and overcome by their own corruption.
These people, who once claimed the Name of Jesus, have turned away, like "A dog returns to its own vomit".
They are "springs without water, and mists driven by a storm, for whom the black darkness has been reserved" (v17).
Peter's warning is forceful:  If God punished rebellious angels, throwing them into hell;  If He judged the ancient world, flooding the earth and wiping out all except Noah and those in the ark; if He wiped out Sodom and Gomorrah because of their corruption, rescuing only Lot;  then He "knows how to rescue the godly from temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgement" (2:9)
There is a time coming when all of the earth and the heavens will be consumed by fire.  Destruction of "ungodly men" will happen on the day of judgement.  It is only the wonderful patience of our Lord that delays the coming destruction.  He mercifully waits, desiring "all to come to repentance".  But as certainly as the flood, the fire will come.
"Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness,"  - People looking for His coming,  looking for the new heavens and new earth, diligent to live for Him, on guard against false teachers and anything that hinders us from being steadfast in Jesus.  People who continue to "grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ" (3:18).
 Peter warns us to be diligent, to take careful, personal attention to our hearts.  Are we growing in His  grace? Are we adding to our knowledge of Jesus through His Word? Are we applying "all diligence" to our faith? Are we adding "moral excellence", "knowledge", "self-control", "perseverance", "godliness", "brotherly kindness" and "love".  Are we walking in the Truth?   Some who claimed to know Jesus didn't walk in the Truth and Peter says that "it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn away from" it. (2:21)
Turn your eyes upon Jesus!  Look full into His wonderful face!  And the things of earth will grow strangely dim, in the light of His glory and grace.
May I remember Your Word, O Lord. May I walk in Your Truth and keep my eyes on You, always.