Sitting on the Fence

There was an incredibly large group of people assembled. On one side of the group stood Jesus and on the other side of the group stood Satan. There was a fence that separated the group and ran through the middle.

The was scene set and both Jesus and Satan started calling on the people in the group and one by one each person made up their mind and went to either Jesus or Satan.

This kept going until eventually Jesus had gathered around him a group of people as had Satan. But one man refused to join either group. He climbed on top the fence that was there and sat down on it. Then Jesus and His people left as did Satan and his group.

And the man on the fence sat alone.

As this man sat there, Satan came back, and appeared to be looking for something that he'd 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."

This why Jesus said:

"No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other..." (Matthew 6:24)

After the Israelites had come into the Promised Land, Joshua was near the end of his life when he spoke to the people:

"And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD." (Joshua 24:15)