How Ought You live?

I have spent a good number of years in college studies, completing four degrees from an AA to a D.Min.  One of the constant and abiding truths I learned in all those years is that a final exam or project has a sobering effect on one's study and preparation. 

If there were no final, if grades were just given out like "Participation Awards," there would be little, if any, focused, determined hours of work and study that accompany serious academic pursuits. And, I suspect, if you took away final exams, prayer would would take a dramatic drop on campus as well.

A deadline on the job, incoming bad weather on the farm, an approaching fire near your home - notice of impending and serious finality always heightens our senses and causes us to make course corrections and increase our efforts. 

This truth is the backdrop of Peter's warning in 2 Peter 3, where, after reminding us of the pending and final destruction of the world and worldly things, poses the sobering question: "Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be" (2 Pet 3:11a)?

He then provides the answer: "…You ought to live holy and godly lives as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming..." (2 Pet 3:11b-12).

We ought but do we?  More specifically, in view of the coming judgment and destruction of planet earth and those who live according to the world, what kind of person are you?  How do you treat others?   How do you honor God?  How do you live out your faith?  How do you bear witness to the Gospel? 

Jus' Askn.