Yokeage?

This was written right after reading Beckie's post on the BSBCI blog... I commented but this is an important subject to me so I wanted to say a lot... covering the friends aspect of it all, though, daiting is of course totally different...


I am going to start this one off with on of my least favorite verses because it causes quite a bit of contreversy inside yours truly:

2 Corinthians 6:14 Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?


First, to answer those final two questions: righteousness and wickedness have nothing it common, except that they coexist; were that not true, why would there be meaning to life? Were there no wickeness, how would we know righteousness, and vice versa? WHERE WOULD ALL THE GOOD STORiES COME FROM? (sorry writer kicking in lol). As for the second, light is in constant fellowship with darkness... we call it day and night. Precicely half of the world is always in darkness, the other alight. God created it to be this way. Once again, if we never had brushes with darkness, we'd never be able to truly see the light... and now I'm incredibly off-topic. Point being, they may have nothing in common, but let's face it: no matter what, believers and unbelievers are going to be coexisting with each other and we might as well take advantage of it.

And yes, this leads us in to point number two (sorry I've discovered a passion for editorials and etc): taking advantage of it. Think about how you ended up having a relationship with Jesus. I know for quite a few people it was growing up in a strong church, but in my case, it was a friend and then a festival that pulled me in: Emily Kozy + Alive wooo six days! and yes, Emily and I had been friends for a long long time, but if she'd stopped hanging out with me because I was an "ubeliever," per se, where would I be now? Ok maybe I would have still gone to Alive and etc but maybe my situation is not such a good example. In the end, if Christians refuse to be "yolked together with unbelievers," who's going to share the truth with them?

Finally... tying this in with Beckie's post because that's what inspired it all... the little girl and bigger boy illustration. Beckie, you said that it showed how Christians are more likely to weaken in their faith than to lead the other to God, yes, in daiting at least. I just don't believe that's true in friendships; I can't believe that. Probably an even half of my friends are Christians, and yes, the other half are "nonbelievers." Here comes that half again: night and day; wicked and righteous. Some of these people are indeed some of my best friends and I don't see a probelm with that as long as God is numero uno. I believe in evangelism and I believe that God created night and day in such a way as to be constantly equal... so that we do have to deal with the darkness in order to fully understand the light :).

thoughts? I hope so. comment even if it's just to say that we need another girls night out soon.

<33333333 Rosie