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From a Christian standpoint, and considering the military language used, i assume it has to do somewhat with the war between good and evil.
If you "enlist" to serve ol' JC, then you've given your life to the perpetration of Good and to serving the will of God. It means you recognize the difference between good and evil and must now always act on the side of good. You can no longer claim neutrality--you are God's warrior.
And if you should turn your back, or become traitor, then you willingly to go the side of Evil. The assumption is, I think, that once you know Jesus Christ your eyes haev been opened, and if at that point you choose anything other than the path of JEsus you are willfully working against Him and therefore on the path of evil. There is still no possibility of neutrailty for you. You know the difference and have turned your back on good. And that act of turning away from Good is in itself Evil.
It doesn't do much for me, personally, bcause I don't see myself as being at war. I am not God's soldier. I may bea lot of things, and my God may be a lot of things, but HE is not a General and I am not his private. My relationship with God is not one of coercion or violence or subterfuge. And I'm not meaning to suggest that this is the normal Christian's relationship with God--but rather that this quote, to my mind, perpetrates the idea of the Christian soldier, and I just an't get behind that.
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