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THE ROTTEN POTATO
I am sure, like me, you have found a rotten potato in your bag of potatoes. Isn’t it such a foul smell? There’s nothing worse. I found one the other night in my bag. The only trouble with a rotten potato is that it contaminates all the other potatoes around it! I had to throw out a few others that were beginning to rot around it. And then wash all the others!
If only we would realize that we too can be like a rotten potato. When things don’t go your way, what do you do? Do you say, “Oh well, praise the Lord anyway. Or do you get into a mood? Begin to pout? Or give the “silent treatment” to your husband. We know these reactions come from our rotten flesh. And it stinks!
Actually, our flesh is meant to be dead! The Bible tells us that when Christ died, we died with Him. When He rose, we rose with Him. When we come to Christ, we die to our flesh and instead yield to the life of Jesus Christ who dwells in us.
Galatians 2:20 says: “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loves me, and gave himself or me.”
A dead person doesn’t react! When we react with anger or get into a mood, we show to everyone around us that our flesh is still very much alive.
The problem is that one rotten potato doesn’t stay to itself. Because it is part of a bag of potatoes it begins to pollute all the potatoes around it. It’s the same with us. We live in a family. When we react negatively, live in self-pity, “fly off the handle,” or put on a miserable attitude, we affect everyone around us. We make them miserable too. They have to smell the stink of the rottenness.
Are you giving off bad smells or the beautiful aroma of Christ?
Love from Nancy Campbell
Read Romans chapter 6, Galatians 2:20; 5:24; 6:14; Ephesians 4:22-27; and Colossians 3:5-9.
