A life with Jesus smells better than a life without Him.
2 Corinthians 2:14, Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.
Preparing a good pot of beans takes time. Sure, you can open a can of Pintos, throw them in a pot, warm them up, and it will satisfy an empty stomach. But you get a bag of dried Pintos, separate the rocks and trash from the beans, soak them in water over night, add a ham hock and let them cook all day while you are at work. Add side of cornbread and if that don’t make your tongue want to slap your brain, I don’t know what will.
Just like those pot of home cooked beans many want a “successful” Christian life but they want to wake up one morning and BAM they are one. It doesn’t work that way. You have to be willing to work at it. It takes sacrifice! Paul said it this way, “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 loved me, and gave himself for me.” Galatians 2:20
You have to take time to read your Bible and pray every day. Don’t make excuses on why not to go to church, just get up and go—there are hypocrites at the place you work at and you still go. Get involved in the church—sing in the choir, mow the yard or volunteer for the nursery. Before you know it, your life will begin to smell a lot better!!!