Living Words of Encouragement

YOKED WITH BELEIVERS

This thought of a yoke comes from harnessing two animals together. It is a wooden framework consisting of a crossbar with two U-shaped pieces that encircle the necks of animal, usually oxen or horses. The significance of the harness is to yoke (join) them together so that one can not move without the other.

We often see the same two people together doing the same things, thus signaling they are yoked (joined) together. That old cliché “Association breeds” is a true statement. Your intent my not be to act like the other person, but if you associate long enough it will begin to rub off on you. So, if two walk together you must be in agreement with each other. The prophet Amos stated, “Two people will not walk together unless they have agreed to do so. (Amos 3:3)

This means that wherever you are, and whomever you are with is a choice that you have made. We need to examine our lives and relationships to see if we are yoked with believers or unbelievers. The Word of God lets us know that because we belong to Him we are to be concerned as to where we walk, for we are not the same as the people of the world. We are here in the world but we must show ourselves different from those who are not of the household of faith.

You are not the same as those who do not believe. So do not join (yoke) yourselves to them. Good and bad do not belong together. Light and darkness cannot share together. How can Christ and Belial, the devil, have any agreement? What can a believer have together with a nonbeliever? The temple of God cannot have any agreement with idols, and we are the temple of the living God. As God said: “I will live with them and walk with them. And I will be their God, and they will be my people.” (II Corinthians 6:14-16)

Remember, believers need to be yoked to God and other believers.

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