Why Some Keep Choosing the Wrong People to be Involved With

Special Delivery - Love Letters to the Beloved
by py thomas
© November 12, 2013

 

The evidence of when single men and women make their interpersonal relationships (boyfriends and girlfriends) their God, is when they put the true and living GOD Elohim on hold, to answer the call of "flesh n' blood."  It's during those times that we choose what is most important to us.  Even though ELOHIM puts a premium importance on our relationship with Him, most seldom reciprocate.   Time that should be spent with ELOHIM, is given to these relationships and/or the pursuit of those relationships.  Once those relationships evaporate and subsequently leave behind collateral damage in our hearts, minds and emotions that have been pierced full of shrapnel, we wonder over and over what went wrong. 

Could it possibly be that "we" went wrong when we went after something in the wrong time, or even the wrong person?   Could there be any legitimacy to the Scripture that speaks to us about unequal yoking? 

“Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? What communion has light with darkness: And what accord has Messiah with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? And what agreement has the Temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: ‘I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they shall be My people.’ Therefore, ‘Come out from among them and be separate, says Yehovah. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.’” (1Corinthians 6:14‑17)

Are we to compromise?  For single unmarried men and women who are the Beloved of Yeshua the Messiah (Jesus Christ),  are we willing to be honest to the point that we look back over our lives and see the many times we put a relationship ahead of our relationship with the true and living GOD, ADONAI? 

I’ll be candidly honest; there were those times in my life that I too was quite reluctant to face the overwhelming evidence of truth that I have been guilty of making relationships my gods, my idols.  Of course, I never viewed as that while I was doing it, because in my mind, I had always thought of idols and gods as these little statutes of wood, clay and metal that one burns incense to, prays to, or brings them food to eat, knowing that they are objects – lifeless, without breath, a soul, mind, body or spirit.  But nonetheless, the sobering reality is that they were idols – they consumed my time, thoughts and resources – that which is supposed to be set aside for ELOHIM. 



This was a gut-wrenching and sorrowful acknowledgement, especially for one who claimed to be a Follower of Yeshua (Jesus).  Guess I was following with lip service only, and not a circumcised and renewed heart.

We’re the Beloved, and we have idols?  Really? 

Time for truth or consequences?  So how do we avoid the counterfeits and the bondage of sin that so easily ensnares us? It takes truth to free us from this seemingly unending cycle of chasing and being chased by the wrong people.   But what exact truth do we need to consider?  Could it be the truth that would call us to a place to face the truth about ourselves and situations? Or another “strange seducing” truth that offers us excuses, faulty rationalizations, and requires no accountability on our part – and, is that really truth at all, or even perhaps a lie?

Truly, the “real” truth shall set those free who desire to be free.  But the freedom is not for the indulgence of carnality, but the freedom to pursue holiness – the obedience to the righteous instructions for living in the presence of the omnipotent and sovereign El Elyon (the Most High GOD). 

Just before Yeshua’s arrest in the Garden of Gethsemane, He prayed for us, the predestined, the chosen.  He knew our frame and our weaknesses, yet covered us in prayer to Abba our Father in Heaven.  He prayed for us,  the Beloved  - the ones who would enter into His covenant of salvation:

 

¹⁷“Set them apart (sanctify) in Your truth – Your Word is truth.  ¹⁸“As You sent Me into the world, I also sent them into the world. ¹⁹“And for them I set Myself apart, so that they too might be set apart in truth. ²⁰“And I do not pray for these alone, but also for those believing in Me through their word, ²¹so that they all might be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You, so that they too might be one in Us, so that the world might believe that You have sent Me. ²²“And the esteem which You gave Me I have given them, so that they might be one as We are one, ²³“I in them, and You in Me, so that they might be perfected into one, so that the world knows that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me. (John 17:17-23)

So what should one do about this?  Well, I’m not going to say anything because I know Yeshua’s sheep hear His voice and answer Him.  I have …will you?

YAH will forgive for the sake of Yeshua (in Yeshua’s name) and make all things new when we surrender the old selfish person who insists on their own way – trade the old person in for the new model, which can be perfected through the example Yeshua provided us with by His life. 

There’s a special unlimited and with a full warranty offer from Heaven for an “oil change,” on your mobile vehicle called your temple (your body)…it is the anointing oil of the Holy Spirit to dismantle that which has enslaved us – freeing us from all bitterness, unforgiveness and striving after the wind.  Time for a Holy Spirit-fueled tune-up.  Selah.