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Matthew 12: 30 (NIV)
“He who is not with me is against me,
and he who does not gather with me scatters.”
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| When the crowd got too large, [Jesus] would inevitably sharpen the blade of his teaching.* |
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Sometimes
Jesus spoke in parables to weed out the merely curious from the seekers. At
other times, he cleared the room by issuing challenging statements such as this
one. There was no allowance for wafflers. Indifference was not an option.
It
was true then and it is true now: You can’t be just “not with” Jesus. If you
aren’t with him, you are against him, actively or passively. If you are not
working for the kingdom, you are working against the kingdom, even while doing
nothing overtly to affect it adversely. Not to choose is to fall back to the default
position: against Jesus, for Satan. There is no such thing as a neutral party.
If
you think that being a good person is enough, you are wrong. Jesus calls us to
be more than good enough; he calls us to be like him. On our own, we can never
be that good but when we choose him, his grace becomes the sign that we are on
the winning side.
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| He saves us not because we are good enough, but because Christ was.* |
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