Years ago when I was a traveling salesman for an insurance company in Southern Okalahoma, my children played a trick on me and with a box of left over pizza with anchovies in the back of my recreational vehicle. The warm weather caused the smell to get really bad, and I couldn t find what was causing the smell. Every time I got into my car with the windows up, I was met by this blast of something gone wrong. We found it on the way to church one day, and I drove back to the house to get ride of the problem in the trashcan. On another occasion, someone gave me several sacks of rotten potatoes for the food distribution ministry that I was involved with .
Smells are sometimes an indication of something that is generally wrong with our lives.
This is why the Bible speaks of obedience being better than sacrifice. Doing this gives you an enriched life that is full of the power of the Holy Spirit, complete and lacking nothing. If you find yourself always saying the wrong things, cursing, being angry or at odds with a lot of people, then it is time to seek the counsel of other people with a more righteous position with God. The mouth is the last of our members to come into correct discipline of the Lord. Paul devoted two of his letters to a particularly troublesome church in Corinth.