12th November Back to the Bible daily by disciple John
Deut 22:10 Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.
What would happen if two animals of very different size were put to work with a plough, I can only imagine that because they are so different it would be impossible to plough a straight furrow. If I as a Christian asked a non-committed Christian to join me in Christian work it would not succeed as the uncommitted will always be saying and doing the wrong thing.
If a Holy Spirit filled church Pastor had a organist who was unsaved then the worship would not glorify God and the Church could fail. If an evangelist goes out to reap a harvest where the sowing was done by an unsaved person then the harvest will fail. If a strong Spirit filled Christian marries a unsaved person knowing that the scripture says in 2Corinthians 6:14 that we should not be unequally yoked with unbelievers, then that marriage can flounder.
This is a spiritual truth that we must grasp because it applies just as much today as it did 2000 years ago. Many Christians have started business partnerships with unbelievers and regretted that mistake over and over. Man might be able to fool man, but man can never fool God. Gal 6:7-8 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap. For he that sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap destruction; but he that sows to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
An ox and an ass - Because the one was a clean beast, the other unclean whereby God would teach men to avoid polluting themselves by the touch of unclean persons or things. Wesley says about Deut 22:10.
Odd mixtures are here forbidden, Deu_22:9, Deu_22:10. Much of this we met with before, Lev_19:19. There appears not any thing at all of moral evil in these things, and therefore we now make no conscience of sowing wheat and rye together, ploughing with horses and oxen together, and of wearing linsey-woolsey garments; but hereby is forbidden either, 1. A conformity to some idolatrous customs of the heathen. Or, 2. That which is contrary to the plainness and purity of an Israelite. They must not gratify their own vanity and curiosity by putting those things together which the Creator in infinite wisdom had made asunder: they must not be unequally yoked with unbelievers, nor mingle themselves with the unclean, as an ox with an ass. Nor must their profession and appearance in the world be motley, or party-coloured, but all of a piece, all of a kind.
Henry.
Prayer: Thank you Heavenly father for reminding us again of how you want your children to behave in this world. May your will be done your kingdom come, on earth as it is in heaven. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
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