When I haven't been feeling well, I have used the same towel for at least a week. after a while I it starts to smell but I soon get used to the smell and am willing to tolerate it. So I let it go.
A couple of days ago when the family was walking through the mud room where our shoes are, everyone said that they smelled something but no one did any thing about it. when we came home we all smelled it again and each person had there own idea of what it was. I thought it was a dead animal
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We let this go on for about 3 or 4 days, and finally I though I needed to start searching for the origin of the smell and get rid of it. I though for sure I would find a dead mouse. What I found was some had taken out frozen chicken and forgotten to put it back in the freezer, I got rid of it and opened some windows and the smell went away.
How many times in our Life, have we had stink on us because of something we have said or done and not taken care of it, and we just start getting used to it.
It may not be a physical stink but a spiritual stink,
we have used God's name inappropriately or
got mad and was swearing at someone,
maybe we lied about someone or something,
maybe we shared gossip or talked about someone else,
Maybe we made something else a priority over God and we develop this spiritual stink.
It is not a stink that you can just Febreeze away, there is not enough axe body spray to get rid of the stink and after a while we get used to it. But it starts to affect our relationships, it starts to affect our work, it starts to affect our walk with God.
To be really honest when I wasn't feeling good, I didn't shower for a couple of days and started smelling something and knew I had let that go on to long and cleaned myself up.
How long has it been since you have let God clean you up? Have you gotten used to it???
God is the only one that can get rid of our spiritual stink??
Okay I want you to do it, right now take a whiff, do you smell it have you let your spiritual life become stagnant and now it smells like death or worse??
2 Corithians 2:14-15 14 But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and manifests through us the sweet aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place. 15For we are a fragrance of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing;…
WE need to come to God and ask for forgiven for what created the stink in our lives and my Bible say if we confess our sins he is faithful and will cleanse us from them all....God has the ultimate loofa to get us clean through His son Jesus Christ.
WE can then become the sweet aroma of Christ to God, that attracts people to us and attracts people to God!!
Just a thought!!
Who knew that you knew what a loofa is??? Great message again this week Rabbi.
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