There’s a new term floating around called “wrap rage.” It refers to the heightened levels of anger and frustration that comes from the inability to open those heat-sealed plastic blister packs or clamshells. There are thousands of injuries, such as cut fingers and sprained wrists, that occur from tools used to open packages or from the packaging itself. And in many cases damage to the items trying to be freed from the packaging happens. It’s a fact that packaging has become harder to open over the last 10 years.
There are people who are like these plastic clamshell packages. They are visible but keep a careful guard on anyone getting inside them. Over time they have gotten even more difficult to open, and if anyone tries to open them up, they get hurt in the process. The writer of Hebrews warns us,
Do not forsake the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching. (Hebrews 10:25)
Keeping your life closed-off from others is totally unbiblical, but it happens and can actually become a way of life for some. Those words, “as is the manner of some” means that there are people who have made it a habit of not opening up their lives to others.
All of us have experienced some type of hurt from someone else. And it may be that we’ve forgiven those who have hurt us, we are not angry or bitter anymore. We may even come to church every week and be in a sanctuary full of people. But we have succumbed to something very hazardous, isolation. The Bible speaks of isolation this way:
“A man who isolates himself seeks his own desire; He rages against all wise judgment. ” (Proverbs 18:1)
Living without others in our life may feel safe, but it is actually dangerous. God has designed every one of us with an inherent need for relationships and it’s through these relationships that God works. When we isolate ourselves, God’s work is limited and therefore we’re in danger of missing something He wants to do to us or through us.
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