Isolation is a Choice

Isolation is a choice

What is it or where in your life are you choosing to isolate? Are they close family members, friends, neighbors, and coworkers from which you isolate? Are they activities, events, and happenings that you choose isolation? Is it a church body, corporate church, or church service you choose to isolate and not participate?

Christ Jesus would isolate quite a bit, at least nine times, His Word reveals. Christ was demonstrating and modeling personal alone time with God, Matthew 6:6. He would avoid worldly distractions, Luke 5:16. It allowed personal reflection, connection with God, gaining a closeness to God, expressing personal emotions, maintaining spiritual discipline, and avoiding attention. In fact, Christ Jesus condemned the Pharisees for praying publicly for all to see and hear from, Luke 20:46-47.

But what about being a member of the church body, the body of Christ? We are told time and again not to isolate ourselves from the body of Christ, fellow believers, Romans 12:5, 1 Corinthians 12:20, 12:26-27, and many more. We are not to isolate from one another in Christ. Attend church. Get involved in a ministry, be it music, children, youth, men, women, Celebrate Recovery (CR), or whatever. Don’t isolate!

Greg Laurie asks, “Well, what should I volunteer for at church? Everything!” He says that so you can try many ministries to determine which ones you aren’t called to and find the one or ones you are called to do. When you see or know someone who attends a church and is part of a church body, please understand that they could be doing any number of things that aren’t that.

They are choosing not to isolate but congregate and be a part of something so much larger than they are. They are choosing to be an active part of the kingdom of God and not isolate in their own desolate kingdom of themselves. Where’s the joy in that? Oh, I know, there is no joy in that!

We are all called to isolate to draw closer to God. However, we are not to isolate from the body of Christ Jesus, fellow believers, and corporate worship. We are to be just as present, disciplined and active there as we are when praying to God in our quiet time of daily devotion. Either way we isolate, it is a choice we make to do or not. 

For questions or details on how you can not isolate but lean in, to maximize your potential and transform to lead a more balanced, happier & impactful life, please email me at coach@maximizeu.life

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