The other day I was outside and in the air was this wonderful smell. It was sweet and the aroma seemed to permeate the entire area around me. The fragrance was coming from a honeysuckle vine. I wish I could have bottled that exact smell in order to release a tiny bit into my kitchen each day...Most of us love to smell a pleasing odor.
I was outside again yesterday trying to get part of the front lawn mowed before it rained. I could still slightly smell the honeysuckle, but there was a stronger foul odor in the air as well. The closer I got toward the street, the worse the smell was. I looked over toward our neighbor's driveway and I saw a squirrel that was dead. I'm guessing that it had been hit by a car several days ago. The smell was horrible and I could not believe that this offensive odor had practically replaced that beautiful sweet smell that I had enjoyed just days before.
In the scripture 2 Corinthians 2:14 it says that as we grow in the knowledge of Jesus Christ we become a sweet odor to others. We become a fragrance others want to enjoy and be with.
It made me stop and think, Do I have a sweet fragrance? Do others want to be around me? Do my family and friends smell the freshness of my spirit? Do I have the fragrance of Jesus Christ?
Or......In my life do I have a smell that is offensive to others, does my attitude stink, do I have an unpleasant personality that might cause my family and friends to run the opposite direction?
I certainly hope that I allow the fragrance within me to be as sweet as the honeysuckle I smelled days before. It is my desire to grow in God's word and to allow His sweetness to grow even sweeter in my spirit. I want to be a person that shares the fragrance of God with others.
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