Isaiah 5:20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
In a shipwreck, the survivors face a big temptation: to drink the sea water, those who drink it, far from mitigating their thirst, increase it terribly and die much more quickly.
Society in these moments is on board of a ship without course, a ship that has wreck and is to the favor of the current of the sea. Society strolls around without fixed course and thirsty in the middle of the sea and it is not surprising that in its desperation they drink of the sea water, we now that the world falls down in a spiral of which it cannot go out.
The surprising thing is that the church is tempted to drink sea water: and they are drinking! The church, that already knows the living water, the water that whoever drinks it will never thirst again! In his two letters to Timothy, both in chapter four, Paul writes to the young pastor on the future of the last Christians. And today, in these days, we are observing of what Paul was writing, the church has become cold and has begun putting the lie over the truth trying to please to the world. The church ha lost its map and its compass and it has separated from the faith. The sea water that surrounded the church is pleasing the people rather than God, and the desperate church is drinking.
A few years ago we were renting a place in a very big church at local level and our pastor was giving homiletic class and someone stared knocking in the middle of the class to inform us that we had to look for a smaller room because the room we were using was going to be occupied, clearly we wondered what it would be done there: a campaign? Christian concert? No, the room would be used for yoga and zumba classes. Our Lord Jesus Christ said "in the business of my father it is necessary to be", the church has changed the business of the Father into meditation and exercise: the church has drunk of the salt water!
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