Wednesday's I love them....

On Wednesday evening, as I have told you all before, we women, well some of the women, mostly from Harvest Chapel, but we do have a couple from another church, get together to study the bible and to share and to build each other up and to hold each other accountable for the things we do and the things we share.

And right here, I want to say that God's people can only help each other if they are informed.  And by that I mean that when we get together we need to be open and honest with each other, or else our sisters in Christ, can not pray intelligently for each other.  I know that there may be things in our lives that we don't really want to share, but I will tell you all this much, it can be very frightening to share.

Okay now to the stuff I learned on this past Wednesday evening (the 12th), first of all I just want to say that we have an awesome teacher.  She try's very hard to get us thru our lessons, but she is willing and able to help us with other things that may come up and somewhat take a precedence, not over God's word, but in helping us to live Godly lives, and guiding conver-sations so that we all can see these things.

Do we all understand about being unequally yoked?  I thought that I understood this until this past Wednesday night.  I thought that this was only a guide line for marriage.  But it is not!  Just for marriage I mean...It also has to do with other areas of our lives.  When Jesus was hanging on the cross before He went to be with the Father, He said to John, the disciple that he was to be the son of Mary, and that Mary was to be the mother of John.  In other words, John the disciple was now to be the caretaker of Mary, Jesus' mother.  This was because John the disciple, believed that Jesus was the son of God and Jesus' brothers did not share this same belief.

So let's take this a bit farther, when you look at your group of friends, or the people that you spend time with, are you equally yoked?  And do you understand this phrase?

Take a look at this picture...Now just imagine if one of these oxen's was shorter than the other...what would happen.  Well I think that the animals would not work very well together...because they would be unequally yoked.  Now please understand that this is not implying that you can not have short friends, us short people are great, it has to do with ideas and the way that we think.  You worship God; you have a friend that worships money that friendship will not last unless one of you changes.  Hopefully you will be able to help your friend see that worshipping money is not a good thing, nor is it a God thing.  This was exactly way Jesus instructed John the disciple at the cross the way that He did.  So that Jesus' mother, Mary could still be equally yoked with a son.  It would have been a difficult life for Mary had she had to live out her life with unbelievers. 

Now I am going to find someone to bless and I hope that you can do the same thing.