Ate a burger with onion. Onions were strong they were strong on me. I couldn't figure out why it was so strong, even the secretary commented on how strong I smelled. Finally figured out I had dropped an onion down in my shirt pocket it had soaked through to my t-shirt.
We laughed and laughed! What an unpleasant aroma!
How do you smell today? What is your aroma? Hopefully it's not onions! But is your aroma just as yucky as onions - or is it sweet and pleasant?
Under the old covenant, the Lord required animal sacrifices in order to please Him. The sacrifices burned on the altar were often described as "an aroma pleasing to the Lord". But with Jesus dying on the cross, He was the final sacrifice. God no longer needed an animal sacrifice from His children. With the new covenant, God wanted and does want, our aroma to be pleasing. Our aroma should be the aroma of Christ.
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? Unlike so many, we do not peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, as those sent from God.
2 Corinthians 2:14-17
So, do you smell like Christ? Are you spreading the aroma of the knowledge of Him? When we smell like Christ, we will be following Him - walking in His footsteps (serving, loving, obeying). We will be imitating Him in our own lives. The aroma we leave behind will be, or should be, pleasant to all who are around us.....not the smell of onions!
