I was on my way out the door to get the morning paper before going to work when my dog Elvis zipped by my and down the driveway. Before I realized what happened she had attacked a skunk and ripped it in half at the end of the driveway. I grabbed her, pulling her away from the fresh kill and thought "wow, she killed that skunk so fast it didn't have time to spray". I threw her in the house, grabbed the paper, and headed off to the post office for work. My arrival caused heads to turn and noses to be plugged...get out of here you smell like a skunk. The phone then rang with my angry wife on the other end asking why I would be stupid enough to let a dog covered in skunk spray loose in the house. Apparently I was so saturated in the stuff that my olfactory sense shut down--I couldn't smell it!
Sin does that to us. Sometimes we get so deep in sin that we don't even realize what we are doing. King David was an example of that. His sin with Bathsheba so desensitized him to sin that he thought having her husband killed was an option. He went from lustfully looking to murder because of the desensitizing power of sin.
Lord search my heart and see where I've allowed sin to desensitize me...
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