“Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers.” 2 Corinthians
6:14
Many people seem to think this warning refers exclusively
to marriage. I believe that it includes marriage, but that there is far more to
it than that. It comprises all kinds of friendship and association between
believers and unbelievers. To see this clearly we have only to read the five questions
which follow in this and the next verse. They set forth five contrasts that are
totally incompatible.
Consider how unequal is that yoke. You are a man of God,
but he has no faith. You believe, but he does not believe. You know God, but he
has no such knowledge. Whereas you can trust God for every need, he has no one
to trust, so must look to himself. You would place everything you possess or
plan into God’s hands, but he is determined to keep all things in his own hand.
Believing God is as natural as breathing to you, but is something totally
foreign to him. Tell me: What portion has a believer with an unbeliever?
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