9 Do not plant two kinds of seed in your vineyard; if you do, not only the crops you plant BUT ALSO THE FRUIT OF THE VINEYARD WILL BE DEFILED.
11 DO NOT WEAR CLOTHES OF WOOL AND LINEN WOVEN TOGETHER. Deuteronomy 22
Some days ago we visited a sea side town in Ireland and it was an unusual day because God spoke to me twice through events during the course of the day. We went in to a menswear shop during the late afternoon and I tried on some jackets which looked good, but fortunately they didn’t have my size in the preferred coat. The man who was attending me said that bales of cloth woven in Ireland were sent to Morocco where they were tailored and returned as finished garments, cheaper labour costs I assume. He also said that the cloth was a mixture of WOOL AND LINEN.
I didn’t think of the verses in Deuteronomy at the time but shortly afterwards they did come to my attention. In a short reel, (Don’t mix the Pure Spirit with the Impure, 5mins 34secs) Derek Prince discusses the verses above, where he warns that GOD WILL NOT ACCEPT MIXTURE, we cannot offer something which is part flesh/carnal and part Spirit. In the Bible ‘Linen is a type of Spiritual Purity’ and ‘Wool is a type of Human Effort that generates sweat’. These represent ‘Two Different Spiritual Worlds’ and they cannot be offered together to God. I had never thought before about this before but I was glad that I didn’t buy a jacket symbolising MIXTURE IN SPIRITUAL REALMS.
In his Book, ‘Ordering your Private World’, Gordon MacDonald speaks of the Lord’s choice of disciples. Pages 29, 30
‘Frankly, some of those volunteers who were turned down by Jesus are more my style. They are go-getters … and He turned them down! Why?
Perhaps (it’s pure speculation) if they had come aboard we would have discovered that they had a lot more in their agendas than was apparent at first. We would have found that they were men WITH THEIR OWN PLANS AND SCHEMES, GOALS AND OBJECTIVES. And Jesus Christ will not do mighty works in the private lives of people who are so driven. He never has. He seems to prefer to work with people whom He calls. AND THAT IS WHY THE BIBLE KNOWS NOTHING OF VOLUNTEERS, ONLY THE CALLED.’
May the Lord bless and keep you today. Immanuel, God is with us.