I was looking at her and talking.......relishing the outside, the walking ,the talking....the connecting....
Until the intruder.........She screams and puts her arm in front of me (God bless her REALLY) to stop me from stepping on the black and white fur ball. ........the smelly thing scurries off in the other direction sparing me hours of.......
bathing in tomato juice, spraying myself with Lemon or Fabrezing it all day....and night.
Skunks use this scent bomb as a defensive technique......it can linger for many days....HARD TO REMOVE
As I recall this funny story to my sister-in-laws, I laugh and say I wish I could spray sometimes when others annoy me. As I speak these words the Holy Spirit informs me that I do SPRAY........
My SPRAY .........is just as horrible-smelling and hard-to-remove......harsh words spoken....building walls around myself makes for a great defensive technique....words that never come out of my mouth but are just as assaulting and judgemental.....
God like the coal miner goes deeper and deeper within me........WITH HIS LIGHT.....to extract. He changes my SPRAY to a sweet perfume of HIS GRACE......
I want my life and attitude to be a sweet smelling fragrance of GOD'S GRACE....
2 Corinthians 2:15-16 For we are the sweet fragrance of Christ [which exhales] unto God, [discernible alike] among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing:
To the latter it is an aroma [wafted] from death to death [a fatal odor, the smell of doom]; to the former it is an aroma from life to life [a vital fragrance, living and fresh]. And who is qualified (fit and sufficient) for these things? [Who is able for such a ministry? We?]
