Observation Point

We have had three dogs now and they shared a common - and extremely annoying - trait. Periodically they would go on a walk-about and most often come back stinking to high heaven for having rolled in manure, fish fertilizer, or some other really odiferous substance. We could always smell them before we saw them. We then had to drag them to the outdoor hose and give them 3 or 4 baths to get as much of el stinko off as possible before letting them in the house. Oyvez!

I think our relationship with God probably bears more than a passing resemblance to this canine behavior. We believers do pretty well for a while and then suddenly, without much explanation, head out to the pucker brush and roll in marvelously stinky sin. We all have our customized dung (sin) piles but when we come home, we all smell pretty much the same to God. Paul even wrote a Bible verse about it. Romans 7:19. Oyvez!

Lord, help me be more like you and less like our dogs who drive me crazy. Amen.