A Wrecker Or A Builder?

I watched them tearing a building down,
A crew of men in a busy town,
With a Ho heave Ho and a lusty yell,
They swung a boom and a side wall fell.
I asked the foreman, Are these men skilled,
The kind you would hire if you had to build?
He gave a laugh and said, No indeed,
Just unskilled labor is all I need.
I can easily wreck in a day or two,
What has taken builders years to do.
Then I thought to myself as I went my way,
Which of these roles have I tried to play?
Am I a builder who works with care,
Measuring life by the rule and square,
Or am I a wrecker who walks around,
Content with the labor of tearing down?
                          Author Unknown

  This little poem reminds me of some things our Lord has said:

  He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.
                                          (Matthew 12:30).

  For he that is not against us is on our part.
                                           (Mark 9:40).

  They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.                            (1John 2:19).

  No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
                                       (Matthew 6:24).

  To which crew do you belong? Perhaps many will see themselves as neither building or wrecking. Their lives are filled with cares and ambitions of their own; they don’t have time for God or the things of God. But according to these scriptures, there is no middle ground. If you are not working for the Lord, your labors contribute to the cause of the enemy.