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Is your job, or marriage an unequal yoke?
2 Corinthians 6:14 Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteous with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness.
The only way you could be unequally yoked in marriage, is if you believe your marriage is a job, a burden, placed on you by God, for you to endure.
If the Scriptures, had to do with employment in the world, He placed a lot of prophets, and His chosen people, with an unequally yoked situation. ie… Moses, Pharoah, his wife. ie… Joseph, Potiphar the Egyptian king. It was their purpose in life.
If God thought you should not be married to an unbeliever, why would the Scriptures say if you can endure stay with the one you are married to. Because you are seen as one and you become the nonbelievers salvation.
Could this Scripture mean that if you are doing God’s work in the world, a nonbeliever will drag you down, a nonbeliever will keep you from getting God’s work done. If you are taking on Jesus’ yoke that is light and you set out to carry His load, to teach the world about God’s will and how to achieve it on earth, someone saying the same thing but not acting on what they believe. Will drag you down.
The Scriptures say the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church. And the Scriptures also say that because of Jesus Christ, you can become a believer at any time day or night, regardless geographic location.
An unequal yoke is something to avoid when assembling yourselves together as a band of brothers out to do the Lords work.
If you will have a look at the Scripture and keep it in context, you will see it is addressed to church leaders.
If you find the love of your life pray about God’s will in your life. You and God alone know what is best for you. And when you make that covenant with God, accept it as a life long love. Not a burden or a yoke.
Does being unequally yoked have to do with work, or marriage?
It does not look like it, even if traditions say it is so.
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