When I was a child, we always vacationed in Michigan. Dad had a home-made trailer that mounted to the car with two hitches and a single swivel wheel in the center. On one such trip, Dad was driving north on US 27 toward Lansing (these were the days before I-69), when a skunk waddled into our lane of traffic. Dad steered the car to straddle the skunk, but the trailer wheel got him – and he got us! As long as Dad drove the speed limit the smell was mostly behind us. But when we stopped at a red light in Lansing, the smell was overwhelming. At every red light my siblings and I moaned in agony. How embarassing!
We, too, need to be careful that the bad odor we attribute to those around us is not actually our own. Some people unwittingly carry a stench with them from marriage to marriage, job to job, or church to church, always blaming others for the stink.
God wants to take our “skunk scent” and replace it with the fragrance of Christ. I pray that God’s goodness and mercy will follow you all the days of your life (Psalm 23:6).
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