The Bathroom and the Voting Booth

The Bathroom and the Voting Booth

By Richard P. Joseph

7/22/2019

    Walk into any public bathroom and what do you see?  You get a vivid display of what is in the common man’s heart.  It’s almost like reading Mark 7:20-22 

20 And he said -- `That which is coming out from the man, that doth defile the man;

21 for from within, out of the heart of men, the evil reasonings do come forth, adulteries, whoredoms, murders,

22 thefts, covetous desires, wickedness, deceit, arrogance, an evil eye, evil speaking, pride, foolishness;

I have seen all manner of filth including pictures, jokes, phone numbers, feces, slanders and bad advice all scribbled or smeared on the walls.  Every evil thing in a man’s decrepit minds somehow makes its way to the bathroom walls. So why is that?  

    Men somehow become brave when nobody's looking.  These men are otherwise cowards but by some magical trick they suddenly become brave when nobody can see them.  No wonder why Revelation 21:8 starts out with the “cowardly”:

 8 But the cowardly, [e]unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have 

their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”  

There is something about being in the dark and unseen that brings out the real side of someone.  

    It is not unreasonable then to see why people also become brave in the confines of a “dark” voting booth.  People who may never engage in public discourse about politics and religion all of the sudden become emboldened when they shut the curtain of the voting booth.  They are now in a position to express their deepest spiritual disposition. Some timid people use this opportunity for good but the cowardly for bad. It is sad to watch many church goers walk into a voting booth and vote for; infanticide, sexual immorality, perverted marriage, to eliminate Jesus Christ from schools, court rooms, cemeteries and society in general, racism, pornography, drugs etc. and then walk out of the voting booth with a big smile on their face and say “Hi I’m a Christian”.  I see this scenario over and over again. I have challenged many who did this and asked them to give me a logical explanation of how they did all that above by voting Democratic and still think that they are a Christian and I have yet to get a logical answer. This is the very reason Jesus said to do your “good” works in the day where they are visible. This had nothing to do with showing off, he is just simply saying that good people do good deeds and are not ashamed of what they are doing. They do not need to hide in a bathroom or a voting booth or in the dark to do their good deeds.  People are actually embarrassed to admit that they are evil at heart so they hide like cowards and vote for it in the dark.  

    I am writing all this to remind Christians that we are children of the light, not of the darkness.  You are a Christian because you have been transformed from darkness to the marvelous light of Jesus Christ.  If you still live in the darkness then you are simply not a Christian. There is no such thing as a Christian Democrat.  When you walked into that voting booth and declared your manifest (Mark 7:20-22), you have just declared your soul. It is not me judging you, it’s you judging yourself.  You walked into that dark voting booth and made known what is hidden in your heart and you are found wanting. My hope is to open people’s eyes to what they really are. I hope all will examine themselves deep down and find out what kind of person they really want to be.  Do you want to be a child of God or a son of perdition. You can learn much when you walk into a bathroom; or a voting booth.