Turn up the AC

I have numerous construction projects going at my plantation and I am building them in priority order according to which building I need first. The other day I was riding my construction superintendent around in my pickup truck and sharing my vision with him as to where I will need to build each structure.

He is an excellent builder, but one would never know it by looking at him. He was wearing one of those sleeveless “wife-beater” tee shirts, nasty dirty shorts, (once)-white socks and work boots. His large overhanging belly looked grotesque and was flowing over his belt making him appear as though he was pregnant with an extremely large jello baby. He had a scruffy looking two day old beard stained from squirting snuff slobber out his mouth like brown stringy glue. His clothes were nasty, and he was wearing a sweat stained hat that appeared to have moving critters living on it. I have seen far better dressed hobos and winos when I used to hop freights all over the country.

He was wearing one new looking item of adornment, a large sparkling diamond ear ring in one of his ears. Egad! This is his statement of fashion????

Worst of all he smelled awful. I rolled down my window and turned the AC up as high as it would go. In fact I could barely hear what he was saying because the AC was so loud and I was hanging my head out of the window to try and breathe. I felt nauseous.

I cannot tell you what I told him that he smelled like in this forum. Suffice it to say that he was beyond ripe and was well into the rotten phase and it was so bad it made me sin by using profanity. I asked him if he owned a shower at home or had ever heard of deodorant. I felt sorry for his men and told him that personally I would hate to have to work downwind of his stench all day.

I heard of someone who divorced his wife because she stunk so badly and would not clean up. He maintained that the Bible states that “Cleanliness is next to Godliness”. While I am ardently opposed to being around the “stinkies”, I’m sorry but that is an old Hebrew proverb and not in the Bible.

What is in the Bible is that we must be clean and purified in God’s sight. No doubt we appear and stink far worse to God with our black sins polluting our souls than my crusty superintendent’s fouling of himself. No doubt we stink up the atmosphere all of the way to high heaven and the angels probably either turn up the AC, or use their angelic wings to fly upwind of us.

We all are in this condition and not one person in the world is free from the necessity of bathing in the cleansing blood of Christ which will wash our filthy sins away and leave us white as new fallen snow. Yes, that includes you and me!


1 John 1:7
and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us of all sin.