It smells!

Ever been in a place and someone walks past you and you can smell the fragrance they are wearing?  I can walk into my son's room and smell his cologne long after he has left for school.  I have walked into stores and walked past  fragrance counters only to smell the most plesant perfumes and colognes. 

I love plesant smells.  I will not put a load of laundry in the dryer unless the fabric softner has been added first.  Why?  Because upon drying, the clothes smell so nice.  It's great picking up a towel with that plesant smell and knowing it's because it was dryed with fabric softener in it. 

I also use a specific shampoo and conditioner.  Not only because they are effective but because when I have dried my hair, hours later it still smells of that plesant.  So where am I going with this? 

"But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of him. " [2 Corthians 2:14]

What a pleasant fragrance to be able to represent Christ because we know him better.  The God who leads us in triumphal procession....He goes before us.  He leads the way and He has provided us with the knowlege we need in His Word, the Bible.  However, along with knowing Him goes responsibility.  The responsibility of accurately representing Him.   I want to be the aroma of Christ.  I want to represent.  Will others recognize my fragrance as being that of Jesus Christ?

We are to be the aroma of Christ both to those who are saved and those who are perishing....I have to ask myself if I accomplish that daily?  Do people recognize the fragrance or smell a stench of worldiness?  Do I smell good one day and fall to the pressures of the world the next?  Do I smell like gossip, lies, backstabbing or envy? Do others say "what a plesant fragrance"  or "It smells!"

My prayer is that I would walk with the fragrance of life, life that comes from Jesus Christ.

For we are to God the aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. To the one we are the smell of death, to the other, the fragrance of life.  2 Corthians 2:15-16