The Danger of Indifference

Indifference is the music of the world that drowns out the things that matter.

Judas walked with Jesus for three years. He was one of the 12 disciples. He witnessed how Christ fed five thousand people with five loaves of bread. How he pulled the demon out of the boy. He was there when Lazarus walked out of the tomb after being dead for four days. Judas heard Jesus talk about how he would be betrayed by man, die on a cross, and rise again after three days. He heard how heaven was a real place, and Jesus was the only way to get there. How hell was real. How we were to love God and others, the two greatest commandments. Judas was at the final supper with the 12. He looked Jesus in the eyes as He told him that he would betray Him.

Amazing. That night of the last supper, the night a few days before Jesus would die on the cross, Judas was having dinner with Him, looked in His eyes, the eyes of the One that loved him more than anyone, and knew he was about to turn Him over to the ones would brutally kill him.

How was Judas capable of this disobedience?

Indifference. Indifference to Jesus, to God.

Judas could not have believed that Jesus was the Son of God. Somehow he missed the miracles, the teaching. He could not have believed that Christ would rise from the dead in three days, that Heaven was real. That hell was real.

Because, if he did, he would not, could not, have turned Christ in. Judas was indifferent to everything he was taught. Judas was indifferent to everything he saw. The teaching entering his ears daily was never getting to his heart. The miracles that he witnessed throughout the course of his walk with Jesus were not penetrating his soul, it was all just happenstance, explained away easily.

Indifference is indeed the music of the world that drowns out Jesus. Indifference magnifies the things of this world. Indifference twists reality, causes doubt. Indifference is the gray area between belief and unbelief that causes one to think that that small things don’t matter. Indifference causes one to turn a blind eye to the things of the Bible, creates partial truths that match the culture. Whatever sees and feels right, must be okay.

But, we shouldn’t ask how Judas could do this. If we truly look in the mirror, we discover that we are all the same. We are all indifferent at times in our life, and capable of indifference at any point in our lives.

Praise God for the Cross that overrides our indifference. The purpose of the Cross was because God knew we would all be indifferent. And, He made a way to Him through Jesus.

The only way to win the battle of indifference is thru Christ. He has to win it through you. Flesh fails, Christ wins. He must increase, I must decrease.

Dwight Moody said, “The world has yet to see what God will do with a man fully consecrated to Him.”

If for no other reason, fight indifference because it matters most to those that depend on you.

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