Read:
Mark 14: 1-9
We read here of a
beautiful act of love toward
Jesus. This
woman took her best, most expensive
perfume
and poured it out over Jesus to anoint
Him.
What prompted her to do this? Did
she know Jesus
was going to die? She
obviously saw something
beautiful in Jesus,
and wanted to express her
love for Him. Maybe
she didn’t know how significant this act of love
was.
How can our lives be like a sweet
smelling perfume
of God’s grace? How can we
express something of
God’s love to the people
around us? Often it can
be in simple and
practical ways. Proverbs 27: 9
says “Oil and
perfume rejoice the heart; so does
the
sweetness of a friends counsel that
comes
from the heart.”
May our lives
be like a sweet fragrance of God’s
grace, so
wherever we go, we will leave a deposit
of
that fragrance in other people’s
lives.
Let us also be as this woman – who
poured out her
all on Jesus. Let us give
ourselves wholly to Him,
as He gave Himself
wholly as a fragrant offering
for the
forgiveness of our sins. His grace is
sweet.
And He has poured out His grace upon
us as sweet
smelling perfume – to spread His
fragrance everywhere.
© By M.S.Lowndes.
For we are the sweet
fragrance of Christ [which exhales] unto God,
[discernable alike] among
those who are being
saved and among those who
are perishing: To
the latter it is an aroma
[wafted] from death
to death [a fatal odour,
the smell of doom]:
to the former it is an
aroma from life to
life [a vital fragrance,
living and fresh].
And who is qualified (fit
and sufficient) for
these things? [Who is
able for such a
ministry? We?].
2 Corinthians 2:
15-16
May the perfume of
your grace
Be poured into our lives
So we
may leave wherever we go
The fragrance of
Jesus Christ.
© By M.S.Lowndes.
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The
Fragrance Of God's Grace as it relates to
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