Our kitchen trash reached max capacity. So my son (who shall remain nameless to protect his identity), being the responsible guy that he is, tied up the trash bag and took it out.
Weirdly enough, the trash was now out of the house, but a horrible trash smell (which wasn’t there before) was now inside the house.
Where could it be coming from?
I cleaned and sanitized the now empty trash can. I retraced my son’s steps from the kitchen to the garage and mopped up a few smelly droplets that must have leaked out of the bag during the transit. I lit candles, sprayed febreeze, and opened doors. But the smell was getting worse!
What in the world?
Then, my other son noticed the smell had made its way up the stairs…at the same time that his brother had made his way up the stairs.
Bingo!
My son must have unknowingly stepped in the smelly droplets, and now his socks reeked like trash juice. Wherever he went, there went the smell!
Mystery solved.
We’ve all experienced situations like this. But it isn’t trash we smell.
No one can do anything right, people are annoying us and life just stinks. We try and get away… but wherever we go, annoyance follows us around like the stench of my son’s socks.
God has a solution.
In the book of Ezekiel, God offered a heart reset to the most negative, disobedient group of people you can imagine.
“And I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them. I will take away their stony, stubborn heart and give them a tender, responsive heart.’ Ezekiel 11:19 (NLT).
If God can transform these folks, He can surely transform you and I. We just have to ask.
People will disappoint us, and we will disappoint people. It stinks, but it’s life…and it’s often inevitable.
Clean what you can around you, but don’t forget to look within….we may be the ones who need to change our smelly socks.
-Binu
