Irrelevant Isolation
““Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley, And rock of the plain,” says the LORD, “Who say, ‘Who shall come down against us? Or who shall enter our dwellings?’” Jeremiah 21:13 NKJV http://bible.com/114/jer.21.13.nkjv The preference for spiritual distinctiveness and moral uprightness can be misinterpreted as a call for social isolation. Whereas, the scripture teaches that believers are the light of the world. And if a light gives no distinctive luminosity, it becomes irrelevant as a useful guide for any community. Within the doomed land of Jerusalem was situated an isolated enclave of the city of David, socially disconnected from the precarious Jerusalem. And while the inhabitant of the valley appears removed from the wickedness of Jerusalem by leaving on the rock of the plain, God's wrath abides with them because of their preference for irrelevant isolation. The grace of God that bring salvation appeared to all men; and it is only relevant for believers' ...