Some thoughts on soap, Fight Club and feet washin'

I was in the bath tub and thinking about...soap.  Wonder why?  Hmmm...  Anyway, I was thinking about how when you use it, it doesn't just mask smells and cover up dirt, it takes them away.  Now, I don't know the technical side of soap (aside from what I learned in Fight Club) but just off the top of my head, I know some things.

1.  It goes directly on the dirt

John 13:5 

he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him.

2.  You don't remove the dirt then apply the soap

1 John 1:7

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

3. You smell so good, people sometimes even notice!!!

In 2 Cor 2 somewhere between 12 and 17, The Word says He

"uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere. For we are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing"

Pastor Steve often tells us to smell like Jesus.  Are ya making that connection???  So now comes applying that madness up there to our life.  Don't wait to come to Jesus or the church until AFTER you have your mess cleaned up. It's never going to happen.  You'll never get it cleaned up, even if it looks sort of pretty.  

Isaiah 64:6 says All of us have become like one who is unclean,  and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf,  and like the wind our sins sweep us away.

The BEST WE GOT, is like filthy rags.  Why not just let Him wash over us, remove the parts of our lives that are hurting us, and make us smell so good that people want to know what we use.