While reading The Art of Manliness: Classic Skills and Manners for the Modern Man by Brett McKay, I came across a great quote...
"There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends." -- Homer
What a blessing to have a marriage with common enemies and common friends. Where the union of the two only solidifies the frontlines in a common war. God made the world to be at war. He placed enmity between the seed of Eve and the seed of Satan. As such, the world is a place of friend or foe.
By God's grace, He has made us His allies and in His grace we are advised to extend covenant only to those fighting for the same team. When grace is engaged, the kingdom produces marriages of one team with one dream fighting the same fight on the same side and delighting in the same friends. May each one of my children experience the joy of having the same for themselves: union with Christ by grace through faith and union to a spouse who has the same.
Being equally yoked is first and foremost a matter of what is seen as first and foremost. But it extends beyond merely sharing a top priority. This much should go without saying. Why would you want to yoke yourself to someone going a different direction? — especially if you both really enjoy the directions you are respectively going? The inevitable stress on the yoke and the two sets of shoulders underneath it is not difficult to forecast. No shocked faces should be required.
But beyond that, there is a matter of speed, pace, purpose, priority, etc... in pulling. Just because you're going the same direction doesn't mean you're going at the same pace, or desire to end in going the same distance. When two people see eye to eye and plow shoulder to shoulder, it is a great blessing to their home and a great curse to their enemies.
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