# 553 - Today's Living Word comes from: Mr 9:40 "For he who is not against us is on our side.” (Mr 9:40) I like the way Jesus uses the pronouns “us” and “our” rather than “Me” and “My” These two words speak mounds about the believers connection to Jesus! And they speak of the reality of the battle! It is indeed, “Us against them.” There is no middle ground, and there is no room for the lukewarm.
Re 3:16 "So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.”
It is important to remember though that the battle lines are not between flesh and blood. This is a spiritual battle.
Eph 6:12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.”
These spiritual forces use everything at their disposal to foster indifference and even outright animosity toward Christ and His followers, because indifference and animosity are the fruit of a total absence of faith.
Have you considered what Jesus did to pay for your sins? Indifference and animosity are not the proper responses, and they will put you in the enemy's camp.
There is a story about the day of reckoning when Jesus and the devil came to a meadow to take their followers to their eternal destination. There was a fence in the meadow, and one man thought he could skip the judgment by sitting on the fence. After everyone had departed, the devil came back and said, “Oh there you are, come with me?” “Why,” I'm on the fence.” And the devil said, “I own the fence.”
The devil owns the indifferent.
Father, let us never stop considering the price Jesus paid for us. Guard us from lukewarmness and indifference.
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