II Thessalonians I
…the rebellion comes first… (II Thessalonians 2:3 ESV)
It’s YOU
I ‘inherited’ from my father an old cabinet radio that was able to tune in around a dozen bands of radio waves… from short wave to FM and everything in between.
I also, at that time, imagined myself a bit of an electronic technician, well beyond my twelve years of age.
Two of the band-choices did not work. Even before I started tinkering with the radio. But I soon discovered that I could not fix it without first breaking it.
So I broke it.
As it happened, I never was able to put it back together correctly.
But the concept was still there. To fix something, it first has to be broken.
The same is true for Christians. While many people might read Paul’s writing here to primarily be talking about end-times, I do not. As I read it, Paul is mostly talking about OUR need for fixing, restoration, redemption, and salvation.
And that starts, from our perspective, with an awareness that we need help.
Our rebellion against God, and our admission of it, is the starting place of our salvation.
Sure, think a bit of some sort of end-times if you want to… but far more urgent, relevant, and important is YOUR end-time.
Know you are broken, so Christ can fix you.