The Fence
There was a large group of people. On one side of the group stood a man, Jesus. On the other side of the group stood Satan. Separating them, running through the group, was a fence.
The scene set, both Jesus and Satan began calling to the people in the group and, one by one – each having made up his or her own mind – each went to either Jesus or Satan.
This kept going. Soon enough, Jesus had gathered around him a group of people from the larger crowd, as did Satan.
But one man joined neither group. He climbed the fence that was there and sat on it. Then Jesus and his people left and disappeared. So too did Satan and his people. And the man on the fence sat alone.
As this man sat, Satan came back, looking for something which he appeared to have lost. The man said, “Have you lost something?” Satan looked straight at him and replied, “No, there you are. Come with me.”
“But”, said the man, “I sat on the fence. I chose neither you nor him.”
“That’s okay,” said Satan. “I own the fence.”
In our lives there are 2 influences: Good and Evil. Part of us being in CFC-Singles for Christ is to prepare and teach ourselves to make better choices when we are confronted to choose between good and evil. We do our part in winning the war.
I acknowledge the world and how hard it is to live in it where we experience and see lots of non-loving things but God provided us what we need to live in this world. We must learn to see the hands of God behind what is going on in our lives.
Most of the time we choose to sit on the fence because we choose what is easy and convenient over what is true and right. When we are tempted to go against God or tempted to sit on the fence, let us remember who we are to God.