During the Civil War, a man lived in a district which was sometimes occupied by the one army, and sometimes by the other.
When the Northern army was in the neighborhood he said he was “a Northern man,” but when the Southern army was near he immediately became “a Southern man.”
This led at last to his being despised by both sides, and he had to suffer much at the hands of both parties. On one occasion a company of soldiers came to his house unexpectedly. He was asked by them to declare what he truly was. Before answering he looked carefully at their uniforms so that he might say he was on the same side as themselves, but he could not make them out at all.
It was growing dark, and the uniforms were worn and faded. He could not figure out how to answer. At last he blurted out: “Well, gentlemen, I am just nothing at all—and mighty little of that!”
We may condemn him, but is it clear whose side we are on? Are you for Christ—or for the world and the devil? It has to be one or the other.
Are you?