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The real secret recipe...
Fear is the ultimate weapon. Sure, sure. Those nuclear bombs are spooky. One flash and you’re a cindered memory a la mushroom. Explosives can maim and kill. They say you never hear the bullet until you’ve been hit. Now the military has taken terror to a new level. Scientists are developing the world’s ultimate nonlethal weapon: a super stink bomb.
Say again?
A super stink bomb. I once unclogged a sewage drain that had been in service for more than 50 years. I described the sensation of breaking the seal with these words, “If death had a smell…” Not descriptive enough?
Remember that kid in 5th grade named Joey or maybe Frankie? You know, the one who thought hiney burps, to use my baby daughter’s terminology, were the height of humor? This was the kid who gave the phrase “Gone with the Wind” a whole new meaning. He was the walking noxious one who could deplete the breathable air in the classroom in seconds while keeping a straight face as everyone else gagged, begging for the O2 masks to fall? This new super stink bomb will make his cloud of gas, and a hearty Hi Ho Oh, My God! seem like sweet perfume.
In these post-Manchurian Candidate days, those Pentagon experts on psychological warfare have to have something constructive to do. The premise of this new weapon is to combine several sewage-type stenches that have been enhanced. Assuming this has been field-tested, all I can say is – those poor lab rats!
The final choices of noxious aromas that make up the Colonel’s secret stink recipe are reported to be a combination of rotting foods, excrement, and decaying carcasses. This super stinker is all thrill, no kill. These enhanced fetid aromas produce a combo of fear and tear gas. It doesn’t kill you, but you’ll wish it had. The stench is reputed to be so overpowering to the human olfactory processes, they will part a crowd quicker than the Red Sea. Imagine Godzilla as a giant stalking skunk. The effect is the same. As an extra, this concoction overloads the brain producing intense, irrational fear.
Fear reduces an opponent to mere prey. Battles are fought in the mind long before the first strike of a weapon. If your opponent can make you afraid, you’re immediately put on the defensive, and you’re no longer fighting, but defending your life. Fear can blind you from your true objective and keep you only existing from fearful moment to fearful moment.
Fear induces paralysis. When overpowering fear comes to frighten the faith out of your soul, remember that, according to 2 Corinthians 10:4, “The weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds.” Strongholds are those collections of thoughts that bind together in the mind to blind you to the reality of the victory that is always available in Christ.
The Bible calls the enemy of our soul the Serpent of Old. Perhaps we might also call him the Stinker of Old. His weapon is the whisper that undermines confidence in the character of God. His is the sly suggestion that the promises in the Bible are true for everyone – except you.
As Christ is the Life, so he is the anti-life, the living death that will be eternally separated from the goodness of God. When stinking fear comes to blast you, overwhelm you will contrary circumstances, and gag you with despair, heed this command found in Ephesians 6:13. “Having done all, stand,” in the confidence of God’s promises. The Wind of His Spirit will come and dissipate the sordid stink of the enemies’ lies away.
Bryan Hupperts © 2001 - 2009
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