Your Team

2 Corinthians 6:14 NLT 
Don't team up with those who are unbelievers. How can righteousness be a partner with wickedness? How can light live with darkness?

Ever since we were children we learned to be on a team. I was on a baseball team before I was a teenager. As an older child this was important for me. It was different learning to work together. But we all had the same goals and a coach to teach us baseball and how to get along with each other. I was the shortest so the pitchers had a tough time getting the strike zone when I was at bat. So I walked a lot. That was a good thing because I was not very good at hitting. But I never was teased about by height or my inability to hit. Teammates just did not do that.

In Christ we have a team of believers we hang around with. We are all learning to walk the walk God wants us to walk, the path He has for us to follow. So we can encourage each other and warn each other in love when we seemingly start to stray.

But what about those unbelievers we still get together with. Can they be on our team? "How can righteousness be a partner with wickedness?" the scripture asks us. My friend is not wicked, we think. And yet my friend is not a believer. He is always thinking and walking in the flesh because he does not have the Holy Spirit within. He is in darkness no matter how good a person he seems to be.

So we must be careful. If our non-Christians friends have a greater influence on us than we do on them maybe it is time to take a vacation from being with them. Time to increase our relationship with Jesus so the next time we meet our friend the light of Jesus is so strong in us we can be an influence on them.