Get Ready to Smell Good !!

“Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place. For we are to God the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.”

II Corinthians 2: 14-15 (New King James Version)

As a kid, my mom had to literally drag me to go for a bath ! It was one of the toughest things to do. But once in, she had to again have a hard time dragging me out because I would be playing in the water for hours :-) Ever been in a hurry where you didn’t have time for a shower and you just doused yourself with some deodorant and ran ? Sure that’s ok for a day or two, But if someone were to continue in that state the true fragrance of ‘filth’ would eventually be totally prominent beyond disguise :-)

We read in verse 15, we are to God the fragrance of Christ !! Wow ! just imagine that ! All scrubbed up, totally clean and spotless. And what do people around us smell ? The fragrance of Christ, And that’s what we are to God – The fragrance of Christ.

There was this ad years ago wherein this girl covers the eyes of her nephew and says ‘guess who ?’ and he just sniffs and says ‘XYZ Aunty’--- stinky smell gave away ! As we walk in this world do people smell the fragrance of Christ in us ? Verse 14 says ‘through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place’… the literal meaning of the word diffuses in this context is Manifests ! Wow ! In other words we are walking living testimonies of Christ wherever we are. Even as we just pass by a place His presence in our lives just needs to spread out to those around us for we are the fragrance of Christ.

Its time to examine ourselves if there is anything stinking in our lives that needs cleaning up. Because if it is not cleaned up , it only gets worse with time. Picture this with me…something precious of yours covered with dust. Now if you don’t wipe it off immediately, dirt just accumulates more and more… it hardens…mixes with other elements around it and eventually requires it to be chipped off !! Lets not wait that long.

We are a fragrance among whom ? in verse 15 we see
· Among those who are being saved
· Among those who are perishing

There are just two categories ! And one can land up in only one of these destinations for eternity : Life/Death !

We read in verse 16 ,” To the one we are the aroma of death leading to death, and to the other the aroma of life leading to life. “

God Bless