Perhaps you have heard the story of the man who went to the doctor’s office and the doctor told him, “I have some bad news and some very bad news for you.” The patient responded, “Give me the bad news first.” The doctor said, “The bad news is that you don’t have but 24 hours to live!” “Wow!” the patient said, “What’s the very bad news?” The doctor then told him, “I’ve been trying to reach you since yesterday!”
One of the reasons most of us hate to go to the doctor’s office is that we never know what kind of news he’s going to give us. In today’s text, Peter is going to give us a diagnosis about our spiritual health, and some of what he’s going to tell us is bad news. But the good news is, not only is he going to describe to us our problem, he is going to give us the cure.
George