17 And so I insist — and God backs me up on this — that there be no going along with the crowd, the empty-headed, mindless crowd. 18 They've refused for so long to deal with God that they've lost touch not only with God but with reality itself. 19 They can't think straight anymore. Feeling no pain, they let themselves go in sexual obsession, addicted to every sort of perversion.
(from THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language © 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson. All rights reserved.)
It can be so easy going along with the crowd drifting in the current of what feels good and the latest thing, but going with the flow often leads to a life adrift. The day will come when one wonders, how did I end up here?
Feeling pain is a necessary survival mechanism, telling us that something is wrong. Without it we could bleed to death from an unknown cut, or be attacked by unfelt tumor that grows a little each day into an unmanageable monster.
Unrecognized sin is like that. Being unaware or ignoring it can lead to death. Not being in touch with God removes us from reality itself. Any understanding or view that does not include God, does not contemplate the true reality. The more we look away from God and longer we live that way, the more out of touch we become.
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