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

How can we break this down in the Light of the Truth in which we stand? Spiritually speaking garments are a representation of relationship. When we, who are in Christ, are received into our perfected resurrected form, we will be clothed in white. Nothing is said as to the material upon which those robes are made.

If we might go all the way back to the first covering, we see God providing animal skins to cover Adam and Eve. It is in their sons, Cain and Able, where we can first see the issues of acceptance. The sacrifice of one of the flock, wool, was acceptable. The sacrifice of the ground, cotton, was not rejected, God just did not honor Cain’s sacrifice.

Genesis 4:7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door.

This acceptance is based on works, action, obedience of the law.

Matthew 22:40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

Love God and love others is the commandment upon which all the laws and the prophets hang. Hang, like robes of righteousness.

So if love is linen, what can wool possibly represent?

Ephesians 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

What, wait, don’t mix love and grace? I am confused.

Let me ask then this question, how well do I love? Ouch, I am not so perfect in performance. Yet my perfection is still the same in grace because it is a gift from God. My ability to show love does not nullify grace.

I am mixing love and grace if I believe that my failures in love in any way changes God’s grace towards me.

I have to keep those two separate, one in the law of my mind and the other in the condition of my heart.