NOTES for Luk 10:1-12
And so He sent laborers into His harvest - and what happened? Our labor looks more like a stroll of wolves than the life of lambs. We are always right in everything; the world is divided into "them" and "us." The fewer people listen to us personally, the narrower the circle of "us" becomes, smoothly turning into "I," and the wider the circle of "them" becomes. They do not understand, do not know, do not hear, but I know, understand, and hear, so I must insist on my own way. Otherwise it will be worse for them than for Sodom and Gomorrah, so I can impose no limits on myself in words or deeds.
How convenient it is to apply to ourselves what the Lord said about Himself. But let us read in the Gospels that "whoever is not with Me is against Me." Yet concerning the laborers who must bring the news of His death and resurrection: "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 extent; what matters is that in Him we are not against one another, but together. And then Psalm 65 will become reality, when "You tested us, God; You refined us as silver is refined."