BE NOT UNEQUALLY YOKED

Spirit & Life Devotional
Wednesday, September 3
Chinaemerem Joshua Ibezim

1 Samuel 25:3 ERV "This man’s name was Nabal. He was from Caleb’s family. Nabal’s wife was named Abigail. She was a wise and beautiful woman, but Nabal was a mean and cruel man."

BE NOT UNEQUALLY YOKED

What was a wise and beautiful woman doing with a mean, cruel and foolish man? Nabal means foolish. Maybe she was forced to marry him. Her association with him would have cost her her life, when David was determined to destroy Nabal and his entire family for being rude to him and his men. Thank God that Abigail knew what to do and acted fast. She later became David’s wife.

A lot of people are suffering today because they've been unequally yoked with people completely different from them; they have married unbelievers, they are partners with people who do not reason like them, they are in associations with people with bad characters who care less about integrity and are capable of cheating and defrauding others to get whatever they want. I have heard people say that it's better to do things with unbelievers. That's foolish talking. Maybe they dealt with wolves in sheep clothing; how can darkness be better than light? How can a hopeless man be better than one with the nature and mind of Christ?

2 Corinthians 6:14-15 says, "You are not the same as those who don’t believe. So don’t join yourselves to them. Good and evil don’t belong together. Light and darkness cannot share the same room. How can there be any unity between Christ and the devil? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?" Nothing. That's the answer. You've got to be careful, if you value your life and your relationship with God.

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