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Excerpt - But, remember, that all that night the water had been gathering in the ditches. It makes us think of a work that is done for us because of the morning and evening sacrifice. There was to be a lamb in the morning, and a lamb in the evening. This takes us back to the work of Christ-His death, and His resurrection. This is what the heart is to be taken up with if there is to be recovery from an unequal yoke. The object before our hearts has to be the One who, Himself, has gone through death and resurrection. So, it was just at that time (verse 20): "And it came to pass in the morning, when the meat offering was offered." What does the meat offering speak of? It speaks of the Lord Jesus in all of the perfection of His obedience down here as a man. His obedience, and dependence too. This is what was set before Jehoshaphat-the meat offering.
Now, we know that these are types; but wasn't this a wonderful thing to occupy Jehoshaphat with when he was in an unequal yoke? You and I cannot do anything in the way of correcting our ways ourselves. It is only as we are occupied with the One who Himself walked perfectly before God that, by the Spirit, our ways are corrected down here. How we would like to think that we can do this, or do that; but we cannot. There must be an object before the heart-a pure object-that we might walk in His steps. If we are thus occupied, the Spirit of God enables us to follow in His steps. This is what the Spirit of God sets before us in connection with an unequal yoke, if we are in it. How many today are found in an unequal yoke! They may not realize it. Anything in which we are associated with those who are of this world, who do not love the Lord Jesus-business, marriage, or in a religious way-is an unequal yoke. How do we get out of it? "Dig ditches." God will take care of the rest. It is going to come in His sovereignty; He will act in blessing for those who know better, but who have done just what Jehoshaphat did. He knew better!
So, in verse 20, "And it came to pass in the morning..." All night the water had gathered. So often in Scripture the waters speak of the death of Christ. The gathering of the waters were judgment for Him. But the very waters that spoke of judgment in the time of Noah, were the waters that carried him to safety into the new earth. So here, the valley and the ditches were filled with water. "And it came to pass in the morning, when the meat offering was offered, that, behold, there came water by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water." Now they are able to overcome their enemies, because the Lord had come in. And it is on the ground of the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and the Spirit of God occupying Jehoshaphat with this-not in any efforts of his own, but by sovereign grace-that he is delivered. And that is the only way that you and I can be delivered from the pitfalls that we find in the Christian path, if we allow them.