Category: Devotion of the Day

Garments of Gray

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

Jewett says, “Worldly compromise takes the medium line between white and black and wears an ambiguous gray.” An American statesman says, “The values of life which were clear to the Pilgrims and the Founding Fathers have become dim and fuzzy in outline.”

We live today in a twilight zone, a hazy condition of low visibility. Black and white have become a smudge of indefinite grey.

God despises mixtures. Our Lord says He will spew the lukewarm out of His mouth – and lukewarm is another word for the same state of compromise.

“Abhor that which is evil.” The fear of the Lord is to hate evil.” He that is not with me is against me.” There is no mild tolerance here.

God abominates garments of gray. If we are to wear white hereafter, better practice it here!

Dark Day

Who is among you that…walketh in darkness and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God.
Isaiah 50:10

These are not merely days of disaster but days of darkness, when there is no sense of God’s presence, when He seems to hide His face. Like Job, we go forward, but He is not there; and backward, but we cannot perceive Him: on the left hand, where He doth work, but we cannot behold Him: and He hideth Himself on the right hand, that we cannot see Him.

These are days when the unexplainable happens, the dark sinister things that doesn’t make sense, when our experience is against us, when we can feel no inspiration, when all we have believed seems crushed and Satan laughs and tells us our faith is a fraud.

God trusts some of His children with a walk in the dark. They may even so leave this world. But He will raise them all in the morning. And never do we glorify Him more than when we trust in His Name and stay upon Him, anyhow, come what may, regardless.