Mercy Found Me

When finding a mate, we are often told to look for someone within the church community. The basis given for such advice is the verse, “Do not be yoked together with unbelievers” (2 Corinthians 6:14). For those of us who don’t know what being “yoked” means. A yoke is what joins two oxen who are meant to carry a cart together. If one ox is pulling in one direction a lot more than the other, then the oxen will not be carrying the cart well. They may end up wanting to move in different directions. This verse serves as the foundation for Christian marriages. A christian should marry another christian. Otherwise, you will end up with someone with a different belief and moral system. Someone who doesn’t know God and will lead you away from Him. However what most of us as believers also don't understand  is that being in an “equally yoked” relationship isn’t about the convenience of going for church service together, or being able to sing the same songs, minister in church or ...

“It’s been miserable,” the woman confessed. “We’ve only been married for five years but it has been the worst five years of my life. My husband has just been awful. And what frustrates me so much is that God confirmed that I was supposed to marry him, ten times over.” You could have served the bitterness in her voice to a thousand people. In another conversation, another woman, married not just years, but decades, to a man who proved to be a pathological nassaccist, slipped in the same sigh and words, “But God told me to marry him.” To these and many others who said, “God told me to marry him/her,” I want to cry out, “No, He didn’t.” How can you say that Tabby? Allow me to burst your bubble. There is nothing in scripture that suggests there is just one specific person we're "supposed" to marry. Let me to explain. Proverbs 31 urges young men to be guided by a woman’s faith and character in making their choice. There is no mention of second guessing some divi...

Nameless and shameless, that’s our Bad Girl of the week. Scripture doesn’t tell us her age, her physical description, or her background. We know only that she was married, she was Egyptian, and she was definitely Bad to the Bone. Bored to Distraction - Genesis 39:1-23 In Pharaoh’s court, Potiphar served as “commander of the royal guard”, but behind his back, people called him the “chief butcher”. You know this executioner wouldn’t hesitate to lop off the head of any man who tried to play patty cake with his wife. Enter Joseph, a handsome young Israelite, despised by his brothers. They “sold him for twenty shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites” (Genesis 37:28), who in turn sold him to Potiphar, no doubt for a tidy profit. His brothers treated Joseph like dirt. His new owner considered Joseph mere property. But God had a bigger, better plan. “The Lord was with Joseph so that he prospered” (Genesis 39:2). Joseph didn’t prosper because he was good, but because God i...