There is a verse in the hymn 'Amazing Grace' that had (rightly) fallen out of use until Christ Tomlin decided to reinstate it when he 'updated' the hymn...

The earth shall soon dissolve like snow

The sun forebear to shine

But God who kept me here below

Shall be for ever mine

This is bad physics, and bad theology!

For a start, snow does not dissolve, it melts.  Were it to be able to dissolve, it would have to be immersed in a solvent - and given that snow is water, and water is a solvent...

Secondly, the idea that earth (and, for that matter, heaven) are dispensible is not good theology, and inconsistent with the sweep of scripture.

But then, as the study guide reminds us, we have the puzzling words of 2 Peter 3: 10 - 18:

"The day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fire, and the earth and everything that is done on it will be disclosed.

 Since all these things are to be dissolved in this way, what sort of people ought you to be in leading lives of holiness and godliness, waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set ablaze and dissolved, and the elements will melt with fire? But, in accordance with his promise, we wait for new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness is at home.

 Therefore, beloved, while you are waiting for these things, strive to be found by him at peace, without spot or blemish; and regard the patience of our Lord as salvation. So also our beloved brother Paul wrote to you according to the wisdom given to him,speaking of this as he does in all his letters. There are some things in them hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other scriptures. You therefore, beloved, since you are forewarned, beware that you are not carried away with the error of the lawless and lose your own stability. But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen."

As the writer of the study guide notes, this passage has the potential to foster a consumerist attitude to our plant, that it is going to be destroyed anyway, so why bother caring for it.  Au contraire! As followers of Jesus, and as part of God's creation, being 'ready' includes caring for this beautiful planet , which is within God's plans for redemption and re-creation.

The prayer:

Holy God, moment by moment make me more and more like you. Increase the holiness and godliness within me.