"We read:"Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woolen and linen together." (Deut. 22:11).
The question is often asked, Why was this requirement given? One of the first things God did for Adam and Eve after they had sinned, was to make clothes for them. (Gen. 3:21).
Garments are a type of Christ's righteousness, with which He clothes every one whose sins are forgiven. (Is. 61:10) Before man sinned, he was clothed with a garment of light and glory, and God designs that our garments should remind us of the heavenly dress with which He will finally clothe the redeemed. (Rev. 3:5; 19:8)
God says, "My glory will I not give to another, neither My praise to graven images." (Isa. 44:6; 42;8)
Part of our life can not be clothed with the "filthy rags" of our own righteousness, (Is. 64:6).
The Savior taught the lesson that we can not patch our own filthy robes of self-righteousness with the righteousness of Christ. "No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new agreeth not with the old." (Luke 5:36)."
Stephen Haskell
