Put Off

Eph. 4:25 (NIV)

Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one body.

Today we are at Jr. Camp and I am in a cabin with 30 2nd - 6th graders. If you have never been to Jr. Camp, then you need to know that they spend all day sweating, and getting dirty, and if we are lucky they consider the pool as their baths. After a few days, they really begin to smell. The funny thing is that they don't even realize it. They have worn those dirty clothes so long, that they no longer even smell it themselves. As a counselor, I make it my duty to toe help them "put off" that dirty laundry. In the same way, we can fall into a pretty offensive pattern of lying and speaking falsehood. After a while it becomes a habit, and we seem to be immune to how awful it stinks to those around us. We need to put off falsehood, before we alienate ourselves. The great thing is that each of the kids' parents packed clean clothes for them. It does not take much for us to putt off the falsehood and put on honesty!