Television personality Mike Rowe hosted a show called Dirty Jobs for many years. In the series, he tagged alligators, eradicated invasive insects, and cleaned out city sewer lines. There was no place he wouldn’t go or job he refused to do.
He often remarked about the smells that clung to him after finishing particularly noxious jobs. After all, who wants a sewer stink clinging to their skin?
That is how God sees us when we get too close to the world. Visit a bar to party away the weekend? We arrive at church on Sunday morning with a sewer stick on our skin. Yell at our kids on the way to church? God can smell it. Criticize the Sunday school teacher? God holds his nose, for he is disgusted.
Even the angels avoid people who associate too closely with the world. The angels who came to Abraham enjoyed his company, for he carried the sweet scent of God on his skin, his clothes, and everything he owned. Yet, when the same two angels visited Lot in the city of Sodom, the stink of sin nearly drove them away.
Genesis 19:3 reveals the great lengths Lot had to go to before the angels would consent to enter into his house.
“And Lot pressed upon them greatly, and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house.”
The Word indicates Lot was a righteous man. However, those he fellowshipped with were not. Their stink had rubbed off on him, leaving him with a noxious odor that nearly drove the angels away.
If we want God to draw close to us, we must endeavor to keep our lives fresh before him. How can we do that? Prayer. Bible reading. Hanging out with the right crowd.
Then we will smell sweet to the Lord.
What we are around rubs off on us. Let’s make sure we are covered with the Lord.
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