day no. 15,301 continued... let's all be socially responsible

1 Thessalonians 4:11
Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life and attend to your own business and work with your hands, just as we commanded you,

2 Thessalonians 3:10
When we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.

The Christian social contract is in essence, "Mind your own business."
The Progressive socialist concept is, "Mind ours."

Christians largely desire to be left alone.
Socialists desire to be attended to.

Christians require you to do nothing so that we can do what we desire.
Socialists require you to do everything so that they can do whatever they desire.

Christians are to attend to their own responsibilities. This comes from honoring God's commands. When you are responsible for your soul, your property,  your family, your business, your hunger, your fulfillment, your production and your distribution, you live simply, heartily, responsibly.... or you don't. You perish. You reap what you have sown. You eat the bounty of your productivity. This means you will either have your fill of plenty or you will have plenty of emptiness. The only exceptions to this are those who are unable to be responsible for themselves: the mentally or physically disabled for example. This does not include those unwilling to be responsible for themselves. Those should be allowed to be hungry. We should let them have their fill... even if what they desire is emptiness. 

Christians desire to mind their own business in order to have the privilege and opportunity to help others who are struggling under their own loads. But those struggling under their heavy burdens are not to be understood as those struggling with the struggle of having to have any burden at all. Those who are unwilling or unable to come to grips with what is their responsibility to grasp are not to objects of our charity. We should give them instruction, exhortation, encouragement and discipline, but we cannot give them a free pass from their obligations. The love of God does not compel us to let someone hate His designs.

Galatians 6:1-10
Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. For every man shall bear his own burden. Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things. Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

Christianity advocates for everyone doing their part with "everyone" being defined as every single one.

Socialism advocates for everyone else doing my part with "my" being defined by a very small number of elites claiming diplomatic immunity from the personal responsibility to provide for themselves.

If only their social distancing required them to stay out of our business. That'd be a distancing I could get behind. As it is, their dogmatic insistence on minding your business for you is forcing everyone to go out of business. The socialist element wants to force us to keep our distance in public so that they can draw closer to us in private. Their only interest in keeping us apart in public is to keep us apart from our private liberties.

They will never be content to live and let live. They cannot sleep unless someone else is forced to be awake. They will not rest until everyone else is interested in their interests. They are egalitarian, uninteresting, and narrow-minded. Their ideology flies in the face of God and seeks to erect a middle finger large enough to be seen from space. 

But it cannot and will not succeed. Sin is insanity and it doesn't work. It can't. It won't. It refused to. You cannot eat the wind and anything that can't go on forever... won't.

Praise God who is from everlasting to everlasting. He has no end and no beginning. He is forever and His world is without end and His Kingdom is forever.... Amen.