Deuteronomy 23:12-14
“Designate a place outside the camp where you can go to relieve yourself. As part of your equipment have something to dig with, and when you relieve yourself, dig a hole and cover up your excrement. For the LORD your God moves about in your camp to protect you and to deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, so that He will not see among you anything indecent and turn away from you.”
What does our camp look like today? Is it littered with our filth or filled with His Presence? This, of course, has very real and practical applications, but it also has deep spiritual implications. We as humans produce waste; it comes out of us, and it defiles that which is around us. Our God is Holy and righteous. He does not wish to live with us in our waste, walking around avoiding it at every turn but desires and commands us to bury it and be done with it. To keep our camp clean is both an act of reverent and obedient worship and a necessity in our walk with God.
He says it’s for our own good that the waste we produce is buried and covered up. That it no longer needs to be in the camp but buried outside of it so that He can walk freely among us. Think about it like this: how much freedom, hope, joy, strength, and peace do we feel when we bury/overcome/do away with a sin in our lives? When we put it in the ground with Christ and step out into our freedom?
Is your work camp clean? How about your family's camp? Church camp? How about the camp that is your personal life? Our God desires to be near to us, but He refuses to live in our filth. Yes, He will rescue us from it. Graciously, mercifully and powerfully, He pulled me from the pit, but He didn’t allow me to stay there, nor did He live with me in it. We must be set apart as holy to the Lord, and our camps must be also!
2 Timothy 2:19-21- Nevertheless, the firm foundation of God stands, having this seal: “The Lord knows those who are His;” and, “Everyone who names the name of the Lord is to keep away from wickedness.” Now in a large house there are not only gold and silver implements, but also implements of wood and of earthenware, and some are for honor while others are for dishonor. Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from these things, he will be an implement for honor, sanctified, useful to the Master, prepared for every good work.
God bless! I love you all, but His love pulls people from the pit and sets them on the Rock of righteousness! Glory, honor, and praise now and forever to Papa God, Jesus Christ our King, and the Holy Spirit!
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