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Can you explain why you don t mix milk and meat together?
We are all aware that certain things don't go together. We don't make jokes at a funeral, we don't wear dirty clothes in front of royalty. But even these examples are only representing deeper emotions. Jokes are happy, funerals are sad. Happy and sad don't mix. There's a time for both, but not the same time.
God created the world and every physical thing represents a metaphysical reality. Milk is a symbol of life. It is a life giving drink, the way a mother feeds her child. Meat is the symbol of death. Picture that stark lump of meat. Life and death don't mix, milk and meat don't mix.
Know what you are doing in this world. Understand what things you do every day are life giving, and what are closer to death. What is connecting you to God, and what is distancing yourself from Him. Are you working to live life in greater comfort, or are you trying to make the world a better place? There is room for both those things in the right time and in the right amounts, but don't mix them up.
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