God’s Fashion Statement

Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woolen and linen together. —Deuteronomy 22:11

Let thy garments be always white. —Ecclesiastes 9:8

John Jowett wrote in his book “The Preacher: His Life and Work,” “Worldly compromise takes the medium line between white and black and wears an ambiguous gray.”

We are living in a twilight zone, a hazy condition of low visibility. Black and white have become a smudge of indefinite grey.  Senator William Fulbright wrote the April 9, 1951 issue of Life magazine, “The values of life which were clear to the Pilgrims and the Founding Fathers have become dim and fuzzy in outline.”

God despises mixtures. Christ says, “I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth” (Rev. 3:15-16).   The prophet Amos wrote,  “Hate the evil, and love the good” (Amos 5:15).  Jesus said, “He that is not with me is against me.” There room for compromise here.

God wants us to put off the garments of gray. Let’s make sure our lives are “arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints” (Rev. 19:8).