Remember the TV series, Sanford and Son starring Red Foxx and Demond Wilson. It gave us the memorable lines: "Oh, this is the big one, I'm coming to see you Elizabeth" and "You're so ugly if you pressed your face in some dough... you'd have gorilla cookies."

Sanford and Son was about Fred and Lamont Sanford who owned and ran a Junkyard. But it was really about all the junk and clutter in their lives. I think it's a parable for our lives, too.

You see, we all have a lot of trash and garbage and clutter in our lives. We all have emotional and spiritual baggage and garbage that we just drag along with us wherever we go.

Today Paul talks about "putting away" all that junk. And he challenges us to be "imitators of God" and "beloved children" so that we can be like Christ Jesus, "a fragrant o…