1Pet 2:12 Having your manner of life excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the matter concerning which they speak against you as evildoers they may, by your good works, as they see them with their own eyes, glorify God in the day of His visitation.
The Greek word translated “visitation” is episkopes. The basic meaning of this word is to observe, inspect, oversee, look upon. The day of visitation is the day when God will look upon His pilgrim people, as a shepherd over his wandering sheep. He will look upon them and will become the Shepherd and Overseer of their souls (2:25). Hence, the day of visitation is the time of God’s overseeing care.
To make the matter simple, we may say that the day of God’s visitation is the day God comes to visit us. When God pays us a visit, that is the day of visitation. I can testify that…deep within I often have the feeling that God is visiting us in His overseeing care. In meeting after meeting, God comes to pay us a visit. Many of us can testify that we have experienced Him as the divine Visitor in recent days.
What does God intend to do when He comes to visit us? Does He come to judge us? No, instead of coming to judge us, God visits us for the purpose of looking upon us and observing how we are doing and what we are doing. It may seem that He says to us, “How is everything with you? What are you doing? Is everything all right?” God’s visitation is like that of a shepherd. It is also the visit of an overseer. This is the reason Peter speaks of the Lord as the Shepherd and Overseer of our souls (2:25). Our Savior is the Shepherd and Overseer. He shepherds us and oversees us in order to take good care of us.
Prayer Confession Loving Father thank you for this word. I understand your love and care over me, I know and believe you always visit me whenever I fellowship with my fellow brothers. Lord, I embrace your shepherding and overseeing over me which is your caring towards me leading me to testify of your goodness in my life in Jesus’ name, Amen.