2 Timothy 2:26
26 And [kai] that they may recover
themselves [ananepho] out of [ek] the snare [pagis] of the
devil, [diabolos] who are taken captive [zogreo] by [hupo] him [autos] at [eis] his [ekeinos] will. [thelema] KJV-Interlinear
26 and they
may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, having been
held captive by him to do his will. NASB
To recover to ones
senses, or to recover themselves, ‘ananepho,’ means to recover to a sober
state, from a non-sober state.
This is a reference to
the mental state of the individual, but more than that, it is in reference to
the spiritual state, which is the fundamental state of mind and life
environment which God intends for us all to live within.
The state of
spirituality, is the state of soberness, or clarity of thought, of clear
thinking, of clear sight, of clear balance, of full control over ones faculties,
of light.
The state of a
non-sober person is the opposite of these.
Non-sober is the state of drunkenness, of vagueness of thought, of fog, of
darkness, of imbalance, of poor reflexes, of the inability to see or think or
react or respond correctly.
Life gives us plenty of
examples in the lives of drunks and non-drunks.
This is not restricted to the consumption of alcohol, but of any means of
reality escape, including drugs, and other indulgences.
Non-sober people live
in anger, violence, self-denial, in lies, in theft, in all sorts of false
ideas. And they end up tanked and worse
in life.
Sober people live a
life of relative clarity and balance and orientation to the world around them.
Now elevate this
comparison to the spiritual life.
Life in fellowship, is
the sober life. There is the clarity of thought, or learning, of correct
orientation to God, to life, to people, to self, and so forth.
Life out of fellowship,
is the non-sober life, the life of the drunk.
And while a drunk has many levels of drunkenness, so too the non-spiritual
person, or out of fellowship person has many levels of rejection or
indifference toward truth.
Being briefly in and
out of fellowship is like taking a sip from time to time. But being continually out of fellowship is
like having a major drinking problem. It overtakes you before you realize it,
and even then the drunk denies their situation.
That unfortunately is
the state of most of the world. Out of
fellowship and out of sync with reality, especially spiritual reality.
Truth is like the hot
coffee of life. Better to hear truth
even if rejected, because there are many forms of truth that can lead to the
bringing back to reality, those who are lost in their spiritual senses.
Life throws many
situations at us, birth, death, accidents, weather and storms, unemployment,
lack of money, social difficulties, and the list is endless. Something or someone may strike the spark of
reality in a person and save them for all of eternity.
That spark may be you.
But before you become
that spark, make sure that you are living the correct life God expects, that
you are learning and understanding life as God expects of you, so that you do
not become a part of the problem through mis-information and false ideas.
There is nothing worse
than a well meaning, but thoroughly confused Christian.
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