It is not a compliment when you call someone a “white knight”. We on the ‘chlorox posse’ ought to know.
Nothing feels better than limping off the football field, covered in muck and sweat, blood stained and exhausted, but satisfied with the win and a game well played. It took me a long time to understand that feeling. In high school, my junior and senior years I played alot, my senior year I barely left the field. But it took until college to be on a winning team.
The chlorox posse was the group of white knights I stood with on the sidelines. Our sophomore year. Varsity Games. We called ourselves this because at the end of the game our uniforms still glowed in the dark. Grass stains on your butt and knees don’t count. We would even find ways to get our uniform dirty during the game, just to look like we played. Being called a white knight was humiliating- as in “hey white knight get the water!” We would have done anything to play, but the coach had our (and his) best interests in mind. We weren’t ready.
I had a picture in my head of hundreds of thousands of white knights on the sidelines, ready to play (Matthew 10:1), while our coach (Jesus) is looking for someone to get on the field (Matthew 9:37-38)- anyone- we don’t have enough players on the field- and all the white knights are banded into little like minded groups saying “that is not my position”, “I have never played before”, “I’m skeered”, “but I am supposed to bloom where I am planted”, “I DON’T WANT TO GET MY UNIFORM DIRTY”.
While the other side (Satan) laughs and does his thing, we say “I don’t want to see a demon under every stone”, or “Satan doesn’t exist”. And Satan takes the battle to the few out on the field- exhausted, blood stained….
We are already guaranteed the victory, we might get our uniforms dirty, but walking off the field, covered in muck and sweat, blood stained and exhausted, with a win and a “well done”, it will all be worth it.
WHITE KNIGHTS: Do WE as ‘christians’ actually believe the words of Jesus?
