The aIr was filled with e aroma of burnt toast...that smell as well as freshly brewed coffee, ...burnt popcorn.....barbecuing... Are so distinctive of manmade cooking smells....some good and others not so good......some, hard to get rid of, while others are pleasing to smell . Making your mouth water, ready to taste the delectable food or drink.
Another smell, that of cinnamon buns in a mall, Where they are baking, enticing the customers from all over to come and taste.....my husband was hungry for those when he was in the hospital. So we went and purchased a whole box and shared it with the nurse's station nearby......that aroma....huuuuuummmmmm so good....the whole hallway smelled good....a breath of sweetness over the hospital fare....
...there are many people I have met over the years who are the pleasing aroma, their enticing personalty, smiles, care, drawing others to Christ by their words, hugs, countenance ....you just want to be where they are.......I want to be that pleasing aroma to others drawing them to Christ ..... Not the one that is thoroughly pushing people away, stinking.
In the Old Testament ,there are many references of offering's aroma that were to be pleasing to The Lord...specific...
Leviticus 6:15. The priest is to take a handful of the finest flour and some olive oil, together with all the incense on the grain offering, and burn the memorial portion on the altar as an aroma pleasing to the Lord.
Numbers 29:6These are in addition to the monthly and daily burnt offerings with their grain offerings and drink offerings as specified. They are food offerings presented to the Lord, a pleasing aroma.
The other was the alters inside the tabernacle or temple which held the incense, burning, reminding us of the prayers ever going upward.....how they reach as a sweet aroma of fellowship, mindfulness of God's answers....
Revelation 8:4
The smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of God’s people, went up before God from the angel’s hand.
Corinthians 2:14. But 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.
2 Corinthians 2:15. For we are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing.
2 Corinthians 2:16b.....to the other, an aroma that brings life. And who is equal to such a task?
help me to be that sweet aroma that draws others to you.......thank you for Your drawing .....your desire that none should perish.....
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