Are You About to Enter a Marriage which God Forbids?
© 2018 by Tom Boynton (editing by Kathy Boynton)
“And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.” (Genesis 1:3‑4)
Since that first day of creation, light and darkness have served as pictures illustrating good and evil. It’s impossible for bright light and intense darkness to exist in the same location at the same time. They are incompatible.
When God gave the Ten Commandments to Moses, He emphatically forbid them from intermarrying with those who worshipped false gods.
“For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God: Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice; And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.” (Exodus 34:14‑16)
Just as with physical light and physical darkness, spiritual light and spiritual darkness conflict with each other. Such conflict is destructive to any marriage.
Christians worship the one true God who sent God, His Son, Jesus Christ, to die for them and rise again. They have trusted Him as their Savior and they follow Him.
“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:” (John 10:27)
If you’re His follower, and anticipate future marriage, He has a very serious command for you.
“Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?” (2 Corinthians 6:14)
No Christian should ever marry one who’s not a Christian. Doing so invites the Lord’s discipline and great marital conflict.
At a young age, we encouraged our daughter to pray for her husband to be. Even though she didn’t know who he was, she took this instruction seriously. Years later, after marriage, she and her husband were comparing notes. They discovered that he had trusted the Lord Jesus as his Savior the very summer she started praying for him!
If you’re not yet saved, will you seek Christ’s forgiveness?
Christian: If you’re not yet married, have you resolved to marry only a Christian?
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