A Year Of Humility (XVL): Do Not Be Zealous For Evil

I confess that I struggle with meekness.  I am not nearly as much so as I should be:  I push to the front too often, turn the focus upon myself more than I should, and demand the world be the way I desire it such that I would be offended if it were someone else.

That, I can deal with.  But have I ever thought about such behaviours as being zealous for evil?

I do not like to think myself evil of course; I suspect no sane person does.  And yet, I have to ask myself: If I am not truly being zealous for good, what am I being zealous for?  Surely there is not some kind of mediocre middle ground, a sort of middling thing that neither wins people nor offends them, a banal blandness that does nothing at all.

But that is not what the Bible offers us.  We are only, ever on a journey to one of two locations.  

Maybe I can argue myself down to being somehow passively good.  But that will not fill the bill either:  Christ was never passively good, nor were the apostles.  They were actively, zealously, good.

If I am not zealous for good, likely I am zealous for something else.