Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?
I worked a Christian prayer line for a couple years.
We'd get dozens of calls a week asking for prayer for a Godly mate. Maybe more than dozens.
She wants a man after God's own heart.
He wants a Proverbs 31 wife.
It's inspiring to see people seek the Lord's guidance to an equally-yoked relationship.
However, how many of those requests are truly seeking a God-centered relationship? We also hear from married callers that are not equally-yoked to followers of Christ.
More often than not, like this emailed prayer, they're simply looking to not be lonely anymore.
"Prayer warriors pray for God to send me a new Male companion. I am just looking for companionship right now."
I have a close Muslim friend. She'd been divorced about 4 years when she said to me one day, "I really want to get married again, to a nice Muslim man."
That comment resonated with me because of her steadfastness to marry within her same faith. Period. Not, "oh, we don't have to be the same faith, as long as he loves me." Or, "I can lead them to Jesus." "I'll pray that he starts coming to church with me, someday."
We can be incredibly wishy-washy when we're desperate to be loved.
How many of us have personally witnessed, or been involved in, missionary dating?
"Missionary dating is the act of a person of one religious faith, commonly Christianity, dating a person with differing beliefs for the purpose of changing that person's beliefs or religion."
Why can't we remain steadfast in our loyalty to the Lord first, instead of ourselves? What would God want for us?
I believe He'd want us to be equally-yoked.
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