Hedging Will Not Work

You might think I spend a lot of time behind cars and trucks.  I do.  And I suspect you do also.  Today I pulled up behind a car decorated with contradictory symbols.  There was the traditional fish symbol for Jesus next to a cross.  However, there was also a pentagram and a bumper sticker promoting Satanism.   As this mixed message drove off I remembered the witchdoctor that sat under a mango tree in front of the dispensary by our school in Uganda.  It was there that I discovered that the witchdoctor was a good guy.  He sold things to counteract curses from witches.  He was the doctor.

One afternoon while waiting my turn to see the nurse at the dispensary (I had fallen off my motorcycle and needed an antibiotic ointment.) I noticed people coming from the dispensary also purchasing things from the witchdoctor.  I recognized one of them and I asked, “Why?”  His logic was interesting.  He told me he was covering all the bases.  Modern medicine was fine, but just in case, a good charm from the witchdoctor might do the trick.

Jesus once said we cannot serve two masters. We can’t play both ends against the middle.  We are either with Jesus or we are not.  “No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other.”  Matthew 6:24.   I wondered if the person in the car in front of me was trying to hedge his faith.  If so Elijah would have a few words for him.  “How long will you waver between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him.”  I Kings 18:21

Written by Roger Bothwell on January 18, 2013

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