Farming (Deut. 22:9-10)

6/20/2009 7:14 AM

 

SPIRITUAL DIARY

 

My Worship Time                                        Focus:  Farming

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                        Reference:  Deut. 22:9-10

 

            Message of the verses:  “9  "You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, or all the produce of the seed which you have sown and the increase of the vineyard will become defiled. 10  "You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.”

            While studying the book of Leviticus I went over this law in chapter nineteen and verse nineteen and so I will cut and paste what I wrote down there.  “There is kind of a strange verse or two in this section that commentators have difficulty with in knowing its meaning.  Verse nineteen speaks of not breeding two kinds of cattle and also not sowing two kinds of seed in one’s field.  In Dr. Wiersbe’s commentary on these verses he says that one of the reasons for doing this would be to show that Israel is to be a separated nation which is dedicated to the Lord and not the practices of the nations around them.  A Hebrew scholar says that the part about the animals could mean that they were not to be yoked with one another thus yoking them

unequally.”

            Israel was to be a separated nation to the Lord and therefore they were not to follow the things that the heathen nations around them were following and it is possible that these nations were doing some of these things that are written in these verses and therefore the Lord did not want them to follow what they were doing.  As far as yoking two different kinds of animals together there were practical reasons for that too, as for the size and the nature were different therefore it would be difficult to have these animals working together.

           

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  As a believe in Jesus Christ I am to be separated from the world system and whatever I do I am to do to the glory of the Lord as 1 Cor. 10:31 says.  This is something that is difficult to do, and so I need to pray over it and be led by God’s Holy Spirit.

 

My Steps of Faith for Today:

 

1. Give myself to the Lord as Romans 12:1-2 speak of and thus not be conformed to the world system.
2. Put on the spiritual armor:  the belt of truth, the breastplate of righteousness, the shoes of the gospel of peace, the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit.
3. Learn contentment.
4. Trust the Lord to guide my steps today.
5. Be continually filled with the Holy Spirit.

 

Memory verses for the week:                                  Ephesians 3:14-17

 

14.  For this reason I bow my knees before the Father,

15.  from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its names,

16.  that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man,

17.  so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you may be rooted and grounded in love,

 

6/20/2009 7:35 AM