What Do You Smell Like?

NPPBC's Media Ministry

Leviticus 1:9
Ephesians 5:2

If the offerings from the Old Testaments God could smell, could He not smell ours as well? He should smell the sweetness of Christ and not the elements of this world.

Coffee has a distinct smell. Some don’t like the smell of coffee while others don’t. Have you ever walked into a house that’s making cookies? What about the smell of bacon frying somewhere in a building?

Once you’ve smelled something you can’t un-smell it. One can’t walk into a room and say they refuse to smell the cookies baking. Everything that Jesus Christ has done, God honors Him and there is no sweeter fragrance to God.

Thinking of people that we know in our lives we sometimes think of the way they smelt. Maybe it was a perfume or a cologne they wore. When we smell it later it brings that person back to our memory. No matter where a Christian goes we ought to release the fragrance of Christ.

When we as Christian’s go into the world, our fragrance goes out to those that believe and do not believe in Christ. God still smells Christ in the Christian. Aren’t you glad God doesn’t measure our success on how many people were saved under us?

We do not have the power to permeate everything, everywhere. God is the only one that can do that. If you worked in a bakery 8 hours a day, when you went home your family could tell where you’ve been all day. You couldn’t help it because that smell just permeates your hair, clothes, and skin. Think about a person who walks by when you can tell what kind of detergent and softener one uses. Your nose is simply doing what it was made to do, smell. No matter where you go the people should know you’ve been in the presence of God and smell Christ on and in you. The lost person does not like the smell of Christ because it smells like death. The lost will hate you and hate to be around you if they smell Christ on you.