Have you noticed that sometimes when you use your oven, it smells like the last thing you baked? This happens to me a lot. I start to bake muffins but the house now smells like pizza. Or I put in the broccoli and out wafts the scent of cake. It's so confusing to my kids to think they're getting cookies and really it's garlic bread. Acch!
How do you keep that from happening? My first guess would be to clean your oven. Even if the nothing dripped or spilled during baking I bet if you wipe out your oven after uses it would help.
We end up "smelling" like the people in our "oven" (our vicinity). The people we spend time with affect us and that's just how it is. It could be a good thing but sometimes it's not. Who do you spend the most time with? Do they bring out the best in you? We can be trying so hard to bake a beautiful cake and our house may end up smelling like broccoli. Sometimes we can't help having stinky people in life. We can wipe out our metaphorical oven though. Renew your mind with the holy spirit. Ask Him for help. To renew your mind means to spend time with Him so that your thinking realigns with His.
Romans 12:2
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Here is a blog post by John MacArthur on this topic. http://www.desiringgod.org/messages/the-renewed-mind-and-how-to-have-it
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