I was never much of a dater in high school. When a lot of the guys were out on dates on Friday nights a few us would get together at the high school and play basketball. Basketball was more inviting because it carried with it a lot less drama if you know what I mean. However there was this cute little underclassman that caught my eye about half way through the school year. Well one day, a day when I wasn’t thinking too clearly, I asked her out for a Friday night date. Like I said, I wasn’t thinking too clearly.
So I picked her up and we headed off to the local pizza hangout. While on the way she began to talk and it didn’t take my olfactory receptors very long to start screaming, “This girl has breath that could cause a skunk to puke”. Seriously, when she talked her teeth ducked! I couldn’t wait for the rest of the evening to end. Yes it was that bad. Our sweaty armpits out on the basketball floor smelled like good old Brute cologne compared to the breath on this girl. I never could figure out, at least before this night, why nobody was dating this cute girl. Guess what I was doing the next Friday night? 🙂
Psalm 38:5 (NLT) — 5 My wounds fester and stink because of my foolish sins.