Wow. Never before had I heard anyone put it in those words. I know what you mean by flirting with disaster. After all that I have been through, I should know way better by now. Yet I'm still a miserable Sinner.
I knew better, but as it turned out, failed to do better. Sad part about it is, I held out for a long long time...well for what seemed like an eternity in human years...only to willfully and intentionally sin...I was full of anger, jealousy, envy, however, God had mercy, He took a bad situation, and turned it into good.
I was just thinking that maybe it is unfair to people that I just shun them right off the bat, after all, who am I, being a puny human sinner, be one to question who is God's Elect, or potential Elect, and the process by which He saves someone. Okay, I'll admit it, that's not what I was thinking. I guess it was just wishful thinking on my part because I met a very lovely member of the opposite sex and she has no real idea of my true identity. And I guess I was hoping that somehow all people could automatically see that my true identity is in Christ and shun me right off the bat, or not, based on that knowledge.
I would learn more about them, before deciding whether or not shunning would be best. However, more importantly we should turn to the Apostle Paul's letter to the Corinthians:
2 Cor 6:14 "
Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? 15 And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? 16 And what agreement has the temple of God with idols?"
The word "yoked" means joined or coupled. Most people do not take the above Scripture seriously. Most think they are in some way "evangelizing" to their non-believing friends, when the truth is more likely that they are more influenced by their non-believing friends, than their non-believing friends are influenced by them! Of course the Apostle Paul is not introducing a new concept, if we were to go through the Old Testament, time and again we see the Lord working to keep His people separate from other nations, and we see what happens when Israel would mingle with other non-believing nations, and the misery it brought them.
Sure you could marry a non-believer, but mostly likely it would bring you pain and misery, and could end up not the way you wanted going into things, it happens all the time. True it's no guarantee things will always work even for two believers, but based on my experiences, I can tell you the people I know who have been married for the longest time, and have lasting joy, peace, and contentment in their marriage, are where both are believers. One of the reasons I think this is, because as believers we know that our soul mate cannot give contentment like the Lord, is no replacement for how the Lord gives peace and helps us with our weaknesses.
