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2 Corinthians 2:1-17 NIV 1So I made up my mind that I would not make another painful visit to you. 2For if I grieve you, who is left to make me glad but you whom I have grieved? 3I wrote as I did, so that when I came I would not be distressed by those who should have made me rejoice. I had confidence in all of you, that you would all share my joy. 4For I wrote you out of great distress and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to grieve you but to let you know the depth of my love for you. Forgiveness for the Offender 5If anyone has caused grief, he has not so much grieved me as he has grieved all of you to some extent—not to put it too severely. 6The punishment inflicted on him by the majority is sufficient. 7Now instead, you ought to forgive and comfort him, so that he will not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. 8I urge you, therefore, to reaffirm your love for him. 9Another reason I wrote you was to see if you would stand the test and be obedient in everything. 10Anyone you forgive, I also forgive. And what I have forgiven—if there was anything to forgive—I have forgiven in the Sight of CHRIST for your sake, 11in order that satan might not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes. Ministers of the New Covenant 12Now when I went to Troas to preach the Gospel of CHRIST and found that The LORD Had Opened a door for me, 13I still had no peace of mind, because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I said goodbye to them and went on to Macedonia. 14But Thanks Be To GOD, WHO always Leads us as captives in CHRIST’S triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of HIM everywhere. 15For we are To GOD the Pleasing Aroma of CHRIST among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. 16To the one we are an aroma that brings death; to the other, an aroma that brings life. And who is equal to such a task? 17Unlike so many, we do not peddle The WORD of GOD for profit. On the contrary, In CHRIST we speak Before GOD with sincerity, as those sent from GOD.
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This made me stop and think about how often, in my old life, how often my sarcastic and smart mouth had got me into trouble in the past, or how I had caused myself embarassment after fully jumping …
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Ephesians 5:2 Live a life filled with love, following the example of Christ. He loved us and offered himself as a sacrifice for us, a pleasing aroma to God. Through us, he brings knowledge o…
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I had the joy and privilege to attend culinary school several years ago but it does not take a professional chef to understand the importance of a sweet aroma. I can remember the tantalizing smell of bacon being fried in a pan on Saturday morning as my mother prepared a satisfying pancake breakfast for us on a Saturday morning. There is the warmth I feel when I get the scent of some roasted […]
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We carry the fragrance of Christ’s character and love in our lives whether we are conscious of it or not. People recognise the Lord in us as this permeates through our lives. In fact, the more we dwell in the Presence of the Lord the more of His fragrance we exude to others. Source: PInterest One morning recently, I was sitting in bed having my daily reading when the most amazing smell of toast wafted up to me from downstairs. My son was obviously making himself a piece of toast for his breakfast, but the smell was so strong and so evocative. In a moment of time I was transported back 38 years to when I worked at the Department of Transport with a lovely team of people. Every morning when we arrived at work we would head off to the lit
tle kitchen to make our morning cuppa and there it was; the toaster. Anyone could use it at any time of the day, but most people used it for ‘a nice piece of toast to start the day off’. The lovely, inviting, warming and welcoming smell of that toaster inviting you down the corridor and into the kitchen to partake of a morning delight still stays with me today. I had not thought about it for such a long time, until this particular morning when that same smell hit my senses again, stirring so many lovely memories of the wonderfully friendly and funny team I worked with. Memories came back of how welcome that tea and toast was on the mornings that my boyfriend (now husband) used to encourage me to drive into Birmingham through the busy city centre traffic, to improve my driving skills ahead of my driving test. I would arrive at the office ‘shaky’ after avoiding goodness knows how many scrapes on the way to work. My lovely colleague would sit me down, knowing that I had driven into work again and head off to the kitchen to make me a lifesaving cuppa and the obligatory `nice piece of toast`. After that I could face the day! The smell bought it all these wonderful memories back in a nostalgic cloud. How blessed I was to have such nice memories and how blessed we are to have a sense of smell. Our sense of smell is one of the most evocative senses we have. A single whiff can instantly transport us to other places, other times and instantly conjure up a myriad of memories either good or bad. How many of us have smelled that familiar disinfectant smell and thought of school toilets? Or someone passes you wearing a perfume and you remember a person or a place. In my first job, all the girls wore Estee Lauder Youth Dew. A strong heady perfume that was very fashionable then. I hated it then and I still do now, but how do you tell a whole office of mature women, when you are the ‘junior’ that you can`t stand their perfume? You don’t, you learn to bear it or block it out. Source: Salt and Light Blog This all got me thinking about fragrances. 2 Corinthians 2:15-16 (NLT) tells us; `Our lives are a Christ-like fragrance rising up to God. But this fragrance is perceived differently by those who are being saved and by those who are perishing. To those who are perishing, we are a dreadful smell of death and doom. But to those who are being saved, we are a life-giving perfume. And who is adequate to such a task as this? It’s an amazing thought to think that we carry the fragrance of the Lord in our lives. Just like if you hug someone who is wearing a strong perfume the smell transfers to you and people can smell the other person’s perfume on you, so the Bible says we carry the fragrance of Christ’s character and love in our lives whether we are conscious of it or not. People recognise the Lord in us as this permeates through our lives. In fact, the more we dwell in the Presence of the Lord the more of His fragrance we exude to others. We also know that this fragrance we carry is not always welcome. To those who are seeking the Lord we are the fragrance of life but to those who do not wish to follow the Lord we appear to be carrying a fragrance they do not like or want to savour, in fact we are like the smell of death. This can be hard for us if we want to fit in with the people we meet every day. Its easy sometimes to want to mask the fragrance, to not let the beauty of the fragrance of the Lord flow from us because we know the people around us don’t appreciate that fragrance. Paul says in the reading above; ‘who of us is adequate to the task’. To be willing for the fragrance of the Lord to constantly flow out of us means sacrifice. We must take time to sit with the Lord so that His fragrance permeates into our lives and then we must be willing to share that fragrance with people knowing that the fragrance of the Lord will offend as many people as it blesses. I attended a college course recently and as the course ended I reflected that I had not told many people that I was a Christian. I wondered why that was and I tried to tell myself that it was because I had not had many opportunities, but the truth was I had not really allowed myself to let the fragrance of the Lord flow out freely. I ended the course feeling disappointed that I had not shed the wonderful perfume of God’s love around more, I will not meet those people again and I can now reflect on a missed opportunity which I regret not being more willing to share. It really is a matter of choice, just how much I allow the fragrance to flow from me, but it also needs cultivation. Perfume needs to be applied if a person is to become fragranced. Time must be spent in the Presence of the one who imbibes us with the fragrance (Jesus himself) for us to soak in that fragrance of His Grace, so that every part of our lives is touched by the beauty that is the Lord, in that way sharing the fragrance wherever we go will be a natural thing not contrived. Its amazing what small things the Lord uses to teach us. Today it was a smell of toast that brought these thoughts and challenges to mind. I`m so grateful that its in the everyday things of life that the Lord speaks to us and brings to us new challenges and new blessings. Lord today help me to be the fragrance of Christ to the people I meet. Author: Jan Pearson May God bless and enrich your life Please feel free to share this article and other articles on this site with friends, family and others
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There’s no formula for entering into a place where the fragrance of God manifests, but you can prepare your heart to encounter His presence in a fresh way.
