The issue of our
spiritual lives is not: do we stink, but to whom and how?
"Now thanks be unto GOD,
which always causeth us to triumph in CHRIST, and maketh
manifest the savour of HIS knowledge by us in every place.
For we are unto GOD a sweet savour of CHRIST, in them that are
saved, and in them that perish: To the one we are the savour of
death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto
life." There is an aroma
of the ALMIGHTY that is unmistakable in a life which HE has called
from the sepulcher of sin. Where then, are the modern day
stinkers for righteousness; those willing to spread the smell of
HIS presence?
"... ye have made our
savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh".
Where are the distant, but sure relatives of Moses, who stirred
up a stink back in the day in Egypt?
"Ye have troubled me to
make me to stink ...".
What has happened to the descendants of Simeon and Levi, who
stunk up the house of Shechem? Where is the fetor of the
forgiven, able to foul the nostrils of a rebel world like a
righteous acid?
Has courage succumb to
the coward's cologne?
"... remember the LORD,
which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your
sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses."
Has the fearless lineage of
Nehemiah gone out to extinction; while the sons of Shechem breed
among us like the hare? Are we guilty of masking the
MAKER'S scent, all in the name of tolerance, marketing, and
expedience? May the bugler 'Sound the Stink' and rouse GOD'S own
to stir up the sweet savor of HIS saving grace in an age where
the stench of spiritual death reeks in our camp.
"In
what place therefore ye hear the sound of the trumpet, resort ye
thither unto us: our GOD shall fight for us."