This morning as I dressed, I needed the final touch...perfume. I had a Carolina Herrera favorite but forgot to pack it. I have a sample tube that someone gave me at a department store. My niece commented on it stating that she loved it. When I looked at it, I realized it is Channel Chance. I told a story in a devotion in Guatemala about Channel No. 5 that I had finally purchased with birthday gift cards. I thought it was too expensive to purchase myself. It has sat unwrapped on my dresser for two years. It's just too special!
This morning, as I debated wearing the Channel Chance, I pulled out the small tube and saw how little was left. What a decision. I then remembered a lesson that I was taught many years ago. It came from Jo Beth Young, our pastor's wife. At my husband's deacon ordination, Mrs. Young gave a charge to the deacon's wives. The scripture she based it on was 2 Corinthians 2: 15. For we are to be a fragrance of Christ. What a charge! I have never forgotten that verse and remember it often when gauging my attitude towards my husband and others. Not gonna lie, sometimes I stink!
As I go deeper, I realize that Mrs. Young didn't give me that charge. Jesus through Mrs. Young gave me that charge. He went one step further in saying For we are to be the fragrance of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, Wow! How am I doing in spreading the fragrance of Christ to those who are perishing? Those who are looking to me to see Jesus?
This scripture has been a favorite of mine since the day I heard it at my husband's ordination, I have never forgotten the impact it made that day and continues to make. As I contemplated wearing the expensive perfume to simply walk around in the Hill Country, I decided to go for it. Wear the scent, enjoy the scent and wear it with no regrets.
I hope I never have to contemplate wearing and being the fragrance of God. I never want to be responsible for someone perishing because I did not represent Christ well. I want others to know His aroma, know I represent him and most of all, I want to wear His perfume. That can only take place when I walk with Him in complete unity.
Wear the perfume!
For we are to be the fragrance of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing. To the one we are an aroma that brings death; and to the other, an aroma that brings life. 2 Corinthians 2:15-16
