The social isolation.

[Leonardo Von]

The social isolation.

Many people harp on about the social isolation. Nonetheless when we could get in touch with everybody, what did we get together for?

Regrettably, most of the people get together for bad reasons, as people of Corinthians:

•    “But in enjoining this, I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better, but for the worse.” (1Corinthians 11:17). 

Behold some reasons for which people convene:

1 – to gossip (what, at the moment, seems to bring great joy, but in the end, will bring much damage:

•    “Bread of deceit is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.” (Pro 20:17).

2 – to attend to parties, revelries, prostitution, drugs, etc. (what is condemned):

•    “And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts are weighed down with headaches and drinking and anxieties of this life; and that day should suddenly come on you; for it shall come as a snare on all those sitting on the face of the whole earth.” (Luk 21:34,35).
•    “Therefore let us not sleep as the rest do, but let us watch and be calm. For those sleeping sleep in the night, and those being drunken are drunken in the night. But let us, who are of the day, be calm, having put on the breastplate of faith and love and the hope of salvation for a helmet.” (1Th 5:6-8).

3 – to make business or political agreements like this people below:

•    “And both these kings' hearts shall be to do evil, and they shall speak lies at one table. But it shall not succeed. For still the end comes at the time appointed.” (Dan 11:27)

4 – to quarrel, many times about picayune things and the worst: precisely with people that we should love the most (spouse, parents, children, relatives):

•    “From where do wars and fightings among you come? Is it not from this, from your lusts which war in your members?” (Jas 4:1).

5 – to worship the Creator in the wrong way, as we saw in 1Corinthians 11:17.

If it is for some of these motives, it is better to stay isolated. 

Many people, at this moment, are in the hospital, pining for come back to home and we, instead of praising the Creator for the privilege of stay at home improving our communion with Jesus and our family (so that we can grow inside and become better people to be used with more efficacious by Jesus when we return to the work), we are yearning for going outside.

As to the communion in Christ, recall that the true Church begins in our heart (2Cor 3:1-3) and the mother cell is the family.

I am outright certain that this isolation comes from Jesus so that everyone stop to relate in a salacious, stingy, cruel way or to explore the gifts and talents of the Creator in the life of the neighbor (for example, as is said in James 5:1-6).

Have a good day thinking over the following excerpt:

•    “each one of you to know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor (not in the passion of lust, even as the nations who do not know God), not to go beyond and defraud his brother in this matter (because the Lord is the avenger concerning all these, as we also have forewarned you and testified). For God has not called us to uncleanness, but in sanctification. Therefore he who despises does not despise man, but God, who also has given us His Holy Spirit.” (1Th 4:4-8).

Edited August 19, 2022 by Leonardo Von