"He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad" (Matt 12:30).
Friends, in our current apathetic church paradigm, may we never lose sight of this great truth: He that is not wholly with Jesus is actually utterly against Him. In other words, the absence of loving attachment to the Master involves absolute hostility towards Him.. there simply is no middle ground; it just does not exist! To trek the middle ground of this holy road is to, in reality, hate real righteousness and the Lord whose great name is on the street sign. Why? Because there is no such thing as partial attatchment.. "He that is not with Me is against me...".
Those ancient believers in Laodicea thought they too could possess a mere partial attachment to our Lord: "I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot..." (Rev 3:15).. but what was their actual spiritual condition? "Thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked" (Rev 3:17). These Laodiceans believed they were altogether lovely, but were actually utterly desolate in the eyes of King Jesus!
When Joshua witnessed the Christophany by Jericho, there were only two possible options as to the stance and position of this man: "Art thou for us, or for our adversaries?" (Josh 5:13). Friends, it is utterly impossible to taste a little piece of both.. for in doing so, we display to the earth that we, in reality, hate the light and shut it out!
Listen to what the psalmist has said: "Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men. They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak" (Ps 12:1-2). This phrase "double heart" in the Hebrew means "a heart and a heart". It references a heart that is halted between two opinions - the polar opposite of a "fixed" heart (Ps 108:1). A double heart is one that isn't fully decided upon the Lord and His purposes, wanting to be both cold and hot simultaneously, an ice cube ablaze! A double heart is one that will strive to be with God, and yet sometimes against Him too. A double heart is one that finds it's beat in tune with the steps upon mere middle ground! A double heart is one that wants to be victor with the enemy and victor with the Lord too.
As David has said, we have either come to make peace, or to betray the peacemaker (2 Chron 12:17-18).. There simply is no in between. May we have a heart like captain Amasai! He had a single heart! Can we genuinely declare like he did, "Thine are we" to a greater than King David?
Help us, Lord Jesus!
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