Worship for Today: No flies in the ointment!

The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him in Ecclesiastes 10:1,

 

"As dead flies give perfume a bad smell, so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor."

 

A jar of perfume gives off an abundance of pleasing fragrance. But just one fly in the ointment can spoil it all. It brings to my mind the proverb, "Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked." Proverbs 25:26. The man in that proverb is a righteous man. But just one infraction, one sin, has the effect of spoiling it all. It seems as though one can live his life in an upright way, but one slip up, one sin and that pleasing fragrance becomes a stench. The disturbing thing about it is that, were we all to be honest about it, we would all have to admit to those things that might result in us not being highly thought of by others. Never mind all the good things done, it only takes a little sin to outweigh the good.

 

As I think of these things, it brings a fresh appreciation for what the Lord has done for those of us who have embrace him in faith. In addition to being forgiven our sins, the Lord has done something wonderful beyond that. In Ephesians 1:4, we read, "he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight." Yes, we are redeemed. Yes, we have been adopted as his sons and daughters. Yes we have been given eternal and abundant life. In addition to these wonderful things, although we have done those things that are displeasing and even detestable to him, as his children, he will hold us in his arms as holy and blameless. He will not allow any odor of our own folly to interrupt a full relationship of intimacy with him. He holds nothing against us and never will. Our sins will be forgotten. The extent of the propitiation of our sins wrought by Jesus Christ reaches to this level!

 

Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share your thoughts of worship with us from your Bible reading today. We'd love to hear from you!

Trevor Fisk
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