Saturday, December 21, 2002
Saturday, December 21, 2002
The Lord is not slow about his promise, as some think of slowness, but is patient
with you, not wanting any to perish, but all to come to repentance.
When teachers and students complained about their odor, the boys simply laughed and went on
eating garlic. When confronted by school officials, one of the boys protested that the smell
couldn't be all that bad. After all, he pointed out, "We were blowing in each other's face, and we
couldn't sense a garlic smell."
That is precisely the same approach the world takes toward sin! Knowing what is wrong, they
laugh and flaunt their participation in the wrong. They desensitize their own consciences by
wallowing in the sin until the sin no longer smells bad to them. Then they act indignant that
somebody should be so intolerant as to be bothered by that which no longer bothers them!
If there is something shoddy in our lives--something that is degrading--something beneath our
dignity as children of God--get rid of it!
(2 Peter 3.9
NRSV)
You may have read sometime back about two Lake Worth, Florida, high school boys who drew
suspensions for eating so much garlic that no one could stand to have them around. The boys
said that their garlic binge began when they read that garlic has properties for cleansing blood
and lowering blood pressure. At that point, each of them ate half a garlic head. For breakfast the
next morning both students consumed three or four more heads of garlic a piece.
Dear God, help me to get rid of the sin in my life, and help me to see the sin that seems so
ordinary. Amen.
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