Brothers,
I am as guilty as anyone of accepting and embracing modern convenience. For most of my life, I have done my business within the porcelain bowl.
But I read my Holy Bible every night, and realized just now that I am not doing what God commands.
Sure, it's easy enough to sit and extrude fecal matter into a city sewer. Could be three feet of solid, dark-brown sausages. Or it could just as well be an explosion of mudslides in any conceivable color. Yellow, tan, light brown. And sometimes it takes many trips to expel the excrement.
I have been wrong.
Deuteronomy 23:
10 If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp:
11 But it shall be, when evening cometh on, he shall wash himself with water: and when the sun is down, he shall come into the camp again.
12 Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad:
13 And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee:
14 For the Lord thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.
The very last thing I want is for my God and Jesus to turn away from me.
I plan to do my business in the backyard from now on. Your thoughts?
In Christ
I am as guilty as anyone of accepting and embracing modern convenience. For most of my life, I have done my business within the porcelain bowl.
But I read my Holy Bible every night, and realized just now that I am not doing what God commands.
Sure, it's easy enough to sit and extrude fecal matter into a city sewer. Could be three feet of solid, dark-brown sausages. Or it could just as well be an explosion of mudslides in any conceivable color. Yellow, tan, light brown. And sometimes it takes many trips to expel the excrement.
I have been wrong.
Deuteronomy 23:
10 If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp:
11 But it shall be, when evening cometh on, he shall wash himself with water: and when the sun is down, he shall come into the camp again.
12 Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad:
13 And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee:
14 For the Lord thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.
The very last thing I want is for my God and Jesus to turn away from me.

I plan to do my business in the backyard from now on. Your thoughts?
In Christ
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