2 Cor 6:14 (NIV) "Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?"
Have you ever pondered this verse? Whenever I have, I usually am drawn to focus on the notion of separating ourselves from sin and wickedness. I've focused on the need to stay in the light and stay out of the darkness. But this last time through, I halted on the 4th word. Yoked. Now, God doesn't want us to be yoked with unbelievers...I got that. But is the implication that we SHOULD BE YOKED with believers? I think in a way, scripture supports such a notion. The Body of Christ that is the Communion of Saints, the Church, is those in the light, those believers who are YOKED together.
I remember as a child my parents had an old wooden yoke hanging from the rafter above our fireplace (it is still there). Not until the rereading of this verse from the second letter to the Corinthians did I ever catch on to its meaning and then connected it to that image of my youth. If we look around the pews this week and think about us all being yoked together...we make a pretty powerful team that can plow even the toughest field and prepare it for the planting. Hmmm...next time you see me at church and I'm looking around the crowd...feel free to tell me "You Must Be Yoking!"
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