For the time of quarantine, we got used to masks, social distancing, isolation. And I’m for masks and distancing, but I’m against isolation. Isolation is advised to certain categories of people only. To all the rest, however, it’s ill-advised. Since everything that starts with isolation goes on to inertia and turns into stagnation. Stagnation becomes degradation, and degradation ends up in depression. People start to get the feeling that the whole world is against them and that God doesn’t love them. And we could so get used to this problem-plagued course of our quarantine-pandemic life that it would become normal. But that’s not a norm.

During the Passover Seder Yeshua told His disciples, "Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.” John 14:1-3

Sometimes we don't let our problems go, and not only because we got used to living with them but also because of some "benefits" they have. It happens that:

Self-pity often prevents us from getting God's liberty in different situations and problems. We feel sorry for ourselves when our plans and hopes are crashing. This condition can fuel us in holding a grudge against God and we unable to free ourselves from heaviness and pain. It is difficult for us to accept God's comfort because we are comforting ourselves. A paradox isn't it. But we are comforting ourselves by our own problem: pains, fears, an unfair attitude to ourselves. After all, we might need some compensating equivalent not necessarily sinful but one that is not from God. 

In Isaiah 54 the Lord, first of all, speaks to Israel, but also to each and every one of us:

Some people, in order to feel ok, need to be confronting or negatively judging someone, entering this state of mind gives them some sort of power and energy. Such people often look for comrades and supporters, so they end up involving people around them, influencing them to oppose others too.

We always have a choice. No matter how difficult the circumstances that we may be going through, no matter what the problem we are facing with and even if we feel strong pressure from within - we still have a choice by God's mercy.

Is there a danger of «too much» love Israel and the Jewish people in the context of the Jewish ministry? How can believers avoid distorted attitudes toward Israel and distortions in the Jewish ministry? The Senior Rabbi of KJMC Boris Grisenko comments: