Un-Quarantine

Sin is a disease. There is no greater threat to the health and wholeness of the human race than the infiltration of sin that has permeated earth and oozed from the pores of humans since nearly the beginning of time. There are sins of action and sins of inaction. If there was a single concentrated phrase to sum up what it is, it would be any thing that is unloving, anything that does not align itself with the goodness of the eternal creator. By some, sin is embraced, others fear it and still others are apathetic towards the acceptance of its mere existence. Sin is the very essence of death itself, it reeks of it, its stench often sweet in its initial fragrance rots in the nostrils leaving the senses numbed to its continued fetor. Sin is the rotting carcass left when Adam killed perfection in relationship. Although it is vile and epidemic in its cancerous advancement, there is a cure. Our eternal creator sent his son to restore and revive the life of relationship so its stench no longer sticks to our being. Scripture tells us we can and should enter the world, though filled with this endemic disease, to live surrounded by this virus, we have been granted immunity from its permanent effects. Unfortunately, many of the people that claim this inoculation have chosen instead to quarantine themselves from those still living with this illness. They live in fear of contracting a disease that is not allowed to kill us unless we allow it to be injected into our restored veins. By doing so they have lost the ability to share the antibody that runs through their soul. Instead they set up hospitals offering personality transplants rather than life saving IVs. We are not called to be hospitals, but medics, to enter the war zone and tend to the wounded and dying. We have taken it upon ourselves to attempt to learn the art of diagnosis and surgery rather than to simply stop the bleeding. Many have grown so comfortable in their sterilized environments that any seen with dirt on their hands is seen as diseased and must be kept from their zone of quarantine until they are deemed cleaned. We were not healed of the disease to live in quarantine, but to be able to enter into relationship with those still affected by it and share the cure. Lives lived in the light of truth must be lived un-quarantined. It is the enemy of life and the sower of sin that desires us to live lives cut off from the rest of world not in community with it. In a room filled with blindness there is no more powerful personality that that of sight. If entering the filth, pain and disease was wrong then Christ could not have done it. If we desire to be Christ-like a.k.a. Christian, then that is what we must do. Is it dangerous? Is it scary? Could it get messy? Of course! Jesus was killed for his efforts, and look what happened because of it, he destroyed the very disease that killed him. We treat people as we would cattle, if we can get them in the pen and stick them with the vaccine then they will be saved and the work is done. People are not animals and they can to choose to reject it even if it enters their veins. Healing is a process and it begins in relationship with a person that is willing to share their blood, the air in the space they live, and even laying down their life for another, John stated that as the greatest love to lay down ones life for his friends, not to lay id down for God, not to lay it down for principles, not lay it down for other “believers” but to lay it down for your friends, clean or unclean. Not until we as a mass are willing to step outside our safety zones and enter the disease zone in the un-quarantined world will a revolution of healing take place.