In the midst of your enemies

The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies. And he who will not suffer this does not want to be of the Kingdom of Christ; he wants to be among friends, to sit among roses and lilies, not with the bad people but the devout people. O you blasphemers and betrayers of Christ! If Christ had done what you are doing who would ever been spared? (Martin Luther, quoted by Bonhoeffer, Dietrich. "Life Together." San Francisco, CA: Harper Collins. 1954 p17-18)

When I read things like this, my heart says, "Yes!" It resonates with the good news of the One who did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made Himself nothing, the One who had no sin and became sin for us. This good news is always on the move deeper into enemy territory.