“Which of the two do
you want me to release to you?” asked the governor.
“Barabbas,” they
answered.
“What shall I do,
then, with Jesus who is called the Messiah?” Pilate asked.
They all answered, “Crucify him!”
Matthew 27:21-22
Are you a “They all”
person?
Are you easily swept
up with the crowd echoing the popular sentiments of the day?
It is speculated that
some of the same people who were shouting “Crucify Him!” had also joined a
crowd earlier in the week shouting “Hosanna!”
How easily we can be persuaded
to change our tune.
Take a look at your
life.
What do you hold dear
that you will not compromise?
Some shouted Hosanna,
not through any revelation, but only because others were doing it.
It is easy to see,
then, how just a short few days later their shouts of
“Hosanna” had morphed
into “Crucify Him!”
When we have no firm
convictions, when we have no foundation or roots we will follow whatever moves
us at the moment.
This is a dangerous
place to live because Jesus said in Matthew 12:37
“For by your words you will be acquitted, and by
your words you will be condemned.”
Are the words I am
speaking spoken out of conviction or out of convenience?
Are they uttered
wisely, issuing out of deep roots of faith or spoken glibly to satisfy the
hearer and puff up the speaker?
These are excellent
questions to consider before we open our mouths.
Remember, it is not
what goes in but what comes out of the mouth that can defile.
Don’t be a “they all”
person who parrots the popular sentiments of the day.
Let Gods’ Spirit
bring a firm conviction to you to be that person who declares the Truth and is
not tossed about by every wind and wave of doctrine or even tossed about by the
use of an uncontrolled tongue.
Your words have such
an ability to identify who you are.
What picture are
those words painting of you?
Do they reveal a ‘they
all’ person or a true disciple of Jesus Christ?
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