Plowing through

Plowing through

Deut. 22:10

YOU SHALL NOT PLOW [work to cultivate something]

WITH AN OX [considered a clean animal, of great size and strength]

AND A DONKEY [considered an unclean animal, of smaller size and strength] TOGETHER.

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An ox and donkey, being of different species and of very different characters, cannot relate comfortably, or join willingly in pulling a plow. The donkey being much smaller and his step shorter would create an unequal and irregular flow of air. As well, the donkey, from feeding on coarse and poisonous weeds, has a putrid breath, which the other animal it’s yoked with seeks to avoid, not only as poisonous and offensive, but producing leanness, or, if long continued, death; and for this reason, it tends to hold its head away from the donkey and to pull only with one shoulder which ultimately causes greater labor and will cause the plow to cut a crooked path.

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Pray the Word:

Lord, there are days when we feel  that while we’re diligently PLOWING THROUGH trying to get things accomplished, it seems that all is going in a crooked path. Could it be that we are plowing [working] but connected with the wrong people, places, or things? Not that any in itself are wrong or bad, but that they just don’t belong together for some reason? We ask for Your wisdom, guidance and understanding as we face each new day that our labor will be profitable and beneficial for us and Your glory.