If a believer turns for support to one who has no spiritual light, then he is certain to receive nothing of any value, but only hurt. The unbeliever can be of no comfort to the believer for he does not share anything in common; he does not agree about the things that are most important of all. He may be a religious man, but if he lacks evangelical light he cannot address those things that really matter. Christ taught his disciples not to throw our pearls before swine and this includes placing the sort of trust in an unbeliever that should only be placed in a believer. We have to start understanding that the unbeliever is as bad as God’s word says he is. He cannot be reasoned with; he cannot be treated as an ally; his advice will always be an expression of his own beliefs. At best he will offer us advice which is good for this world only; at worst he will trample on our sorrows and disclosures, and then trample our beliefs. The man without light is incapable of any real feeling for us in our need. How can he be concerned for our eternal soul, when he is careless about his own? A man with kindness in his heart is drawn to those who are crushed by the circumstances of life and naturally wishes to provide help, to lift up those who cannot lift up themselves. He puts a kindly arm around those who have no strength, remembering that he could be in the same circumstances himself another time. But these three companions have revealed cruelty rather than kindness within them.