Fragrance filled the room...

Fragrance filled the room...

I often have a scented candle giving off its fragrance in my home...and sometimes the smells of cooking take over the atmosphere with Chinese, garlic, mid-eastern curries, onions, or braised meats or stews in the crockpot...they each add their flavor and fragrant smells to the personality of my home...even the burnt offerings that very seldom come forth...
The scented candle wax  is eventfully added to the shredded papers that I send out for fire starters to scent someone else's home...

When Mary poured out the costly perfume on Jesus' feet, she was showing her great love  and care for him, plus a sign for his burial which was soon to take place...Jesus knew this, he told of it...but they weren't hearing it yet...but, I am sure later as they thought back, they remembered that fragrance which filled the house after she poured it out ....associating his teaching and his words with that smell...as we often associate fragrances or smells with different events or places in our lives...

The smell of hospitals in dire circumstances...
The smell of our grandmothers' cooking...
Wood smoke from camping..
The smell of new mown grass or alfalfa fields...
The smell of harvest...
The smell after a rain on the desert...or in the woods...
The smell, good or bad,  of a new born baby...
The smells of hog farms coming across the Midwest...
The ocean breezes...
Of industry in smog filled cities...
Even the crisp smell of new fallen snow...
Etc.
We can see the scenes of the smell in our minds, remember the emotions of the time..
Jesus filled the house...as he fills our hearts with his fragrance... His life...

Thank YOU...help me to be a pleasing aroma to those around me...from His fragrance .......


John 12:3-8 Then Mary took about a pint of pure nard, an expensive perfume; she poured it on Jesus’ feet and wiped his feet with her hair.
And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was later to betray him, objected, “Why wasn’t this perfume sold and the money given to the poor? It was worth a year’s wages.”
He did not say this because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief; as keeper of the money bag, he used to help himself to what was put into it.
"Leave her alone,” Jesus replied. “It was intended that she should save this perfume for the day of my burial.
You will always have the poor among you, but you will not always have me.”

2 Corinthians 2:14-16 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.
For we are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing.
To 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?