We at Cross-Eyed are not above appealing to
the lowest common denominator and no greater example of this scraping the
barrel is fart jokes. Watch the video
below; it’s short and it’s totally not true (I think), but for the purposes of
this post, let’s assume that it is true.
So suspend your disbelief…
I don’t know about you but I do a few farts
in my day and the thing about farting while out and about is that you’ve gotta
be a little bit ninja about it. Having a
toddler with you helps because you can “fudge” the truth and imply that it was
them (Gasp! I would never do that!
*wink* *wink*) When outside standing
down wind helps. You can do it in the
room as you exit with another person… sneaky, sneaky… but the aim of the game
to be sure is to get it out and not get caught!
Which is what makes this video so devastating; there is a technology out
there that means you can’t slide a sneaky little gas bomb into a room and get
away with it. You shall be caught in your
smelly little tracks! Frightening stuff.
The video is pretty hilarious but at the
same time horrifying that something which we try to hide so carefully can be
caught out so badly. That something so
secret can be revealed so easily. It reminded
me of the shame of Judgement Day when God warns us that all our secret thoughts,
secret smells, secret sins and secret squirrels will be exposed for the world
to see; like a fart on an infrared camera.
That thought horrifies me! I
would rather people did not know what I was thinking about at any given
moment. This video is a vivid
illustration of how terrible it would be to have all of those little secret
things we think are hidden away in our minds revealed to the world. And yet there is good news in all of this
horror.
The good news is that on That Day those of
us who realise that our self-righteous, angry and lustful thoughts towards our
neighbours are sins against God for which we should be ashamed; and have cried
out to God for his mercy (and received it through Christ’s work on the cross)
will not have our secrets exposed before God and the watching world. This is because Christ’s blood covered oursins (whew!), even our secret ones, and our lives are hidden with Christ on high. Our sins both public and private are all crushed by his death and
resurrection and cannot be revealed before God for they have been washed away
forever.
There is no comforting news for my secret
farting; I am doomed by society to continue my clandestine crop dusting hoping
that no one will call me out on it but I forever rejoice that though my secret
(and not so secret) sins are many, Christ’s forgiveness is more.
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