Nehemiah sets Standards for Jewish Marriages [Seek Daily NBC]
SEEK DAILY (NBC) Friday, April 16
Bible Text: Nehemiah 13:23-27
NEHEMIAH SETS STANDARDS FOR JEWISH MARRIAGES
“Must we here now that you too are doing all this terrible wickedness and are being unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women?” Nehemiah 13:27, NIV
Oswald Chambers said, “Today the world has taken so many things out of the church, and the church has taken so many things out of the world, that it is difficult to know where you are. Today the world has so infiltrated the church … Satan is not fighting churches—he is joining them.”
One of the ways this happens is when believers in Jesus align themselves with unbelievers in unholy matrimony as it happened in Nehemiah’s days. They had earlier promised: “We would not give our daughters as wives to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons!” (Nehemiah 10:30); but they did not keep their promise. Nehemiah knew this will lead them away from the Lord as it happened to Solomon (Nehemiah 13:26-27).
God warns believers not to be unequally yoked together with unbelievers, as there is no relationship between darkness and light nor between righteousness and unrighteousness (2 Corinthians 6:14-15). God demands total separation from the world once we have been redeemed by the Lord. Are you in a marital relationship with an unbeliever? Consider your ways and make amends.
Insight: “Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people” – King Solomon
Prayer: Lord, untie me from every wrong relationship I am in!
RBT Passage: 1 Kings 16-18
