NOTES for Luk 10:1-12

And so He sent laborers into His harvest—and what happened? Our activity resembles the outing of wolves rather than the life of lambs. We are always right about everything; the world is divided into “them” and “us.” The less people listen to us personally, the narrower the circle of “us” becomes, gradually turning into “I,” and the wider the circle of “them” grows. They do not understand, do not know, do not hear—but I know, understand, and hear, and therefore I must insist on my own way. Otherwise it will be worse for them than for Sodom and Gomorrah, and so I need place no limits on my words and deeds. How convenient it is to apply to ourselves what the Lord said about Himself. Yet we read in the Gospels: “Whoever is not with Me is against Me.” Of the laborers who are to bring the news of His death and resurrection, however, He says: “Whoever is not against you is for you.” It is not our task to judge which of us is with Him, how, or to what degree; what matters is that in Him we are not against one another, but together. And then Psalm 65 will become a reality, when “You have tested us, O God; You have refined us as silver is refined.”