CRUX Daily: Unequally Yoked

Read: 2 Corinthians 6:14

Reflect: What does it mean to be yoked with a non-believer? What type of relationships do you have that may look like this?

Request (Prayer): Father, help me to not be unequally yoked with non-believers.

Have you ever been in a really dark room and couldn’t find your way around? What do you need in order to see in the dark? Light, right? When the light enters in the room, is the darkness gone? Essentially, yes because the light now is in that room which overpowers the darkness. But once you turn that light off, what happens? Darkness now overpowers the light.

Can light and darkness co-exist together? No. Why not? Because when light is in the room, the darkness is gone. If there is no light in the room, then darkness is the only thing present.

We can apply these same principles to those who are Christians and to those who are not. How? The symbol of light is a symbol of those who are believers, even as Jesus told us to be a light of the world in Matthew 5:14. And those who do not follow Christ are associated with darkness. The reason being is because it is better to be walking in the light than in darkness.

Is it safer to walk in darkness or in light? It’s much more safe to walk in light than in a pitch black room, and yet that is what the unbeliever walks in, darkness.

This also applies to our friends that we have. Do we have friends that walk in darkness? Do we have friends who are also believers of Jesus Christ? Now think about this for a moment, if you have friends who are not Christians, is it easier to hang out with them and still obey God or is it harder? Why or why not? It’s harder! Why? Because non-believers do not follow God, they follow their own ways. is it easier to lift someone up in the ways of God or is it easier to fall into the trap of sin? It’s easier to fall into the trap of sin because that’s who are by nature, sinners.

Evaluate the friends you have and examine whether or not the friends you have will help in your walk with Christ or if they will pull you away? Do your friends point you to Jesus or do they take your focus off of Christ? Ask the Lord to give you friends that will encourage you, that will lift you up, and will point you to Christ!