Fresh and Fragrant Jesus

How much perfume do you use? Or, if you are bloke, what after shave? It seems that the array of 'pongs' is immense! I was staggered whilst browsing the duty free at Gatwick realising how expensive the 'Eau-Canal' came in at, almost more expensive than my flight!

Why is perfume so expensive? Well, I'm told it costs a lot of money to crush up the various petals that go into making a few grams of the scent that make the beautiful, or not so beautiful, smells that can be produced.

Scriptures tell us, 'But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphant procession in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of Him.'
2 Cor 2:14

God wants us, as Christians, to be fragrant! He wants us to emit the 'essence' of Jesus. For this to happen we need to be living in 'triumph'. What does that mean for us? Well, I believe it means that He wants us through Him to be 'overcoming' the situations of life that so easily get us down! You see, if Christianity can't make a difference to the way we live from day to day, how do we ever expect it to make a difference to our eternal destiny? Faith and Hope in Christ should change the way we live, the attitudes we have, and the behaviour we exhibit should be enriched by Him.

Like the petals in the perfume, that often means we will be crushed first, but the fragrance we give will be even greater.