THE LIVING GOD #SWEET SAVOR

from Barbara's Bible

Savor is defined by Webster as a distinguishing smell that delights and has distinctive characteristics in its’ presence.   We all know the difference between the moldy/musky and the fresh/airy smells when we are out and about.  Recently I had to go nosing around at an antique mall where I was searching for a replacement of an old hand blown glass window pane  from the 1800 era.  They had some stacks of salvaged windows piled in a musty basement which one of the men offered to help me search.  So with my measuring tape and a strong helper, I leaned over and examined them one by one while he maneuvered the windows.  When we finished the search, he quietly said to me, “Your hair smells good”.  I said, “Thank You”  (I knew he didn’t have alzheimer’s cause he could smell even over that stale musty basement enclosure)  Have you ever had someone walk by you who was wearing  a certain perfume that you immediately associated with another individual who always wore that scent?  Was it a sweet savor or stinky sweet?  You know what I mean was it- overpowering ..lingering….suffocating…or pleasant…refreshing…appealing?  God created all things with a unique savor.  Even hound dogs can track by smell.  If we have our own savor,  does GOD have a scent?  What does the Bible say?  11Corth.2:14-16  “Now thanks be to GOD , who always leads us to triumph in CHRIST, and makes manifest the SWEET SAVOR OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF HIM IN EVERY PLACE.  FOR WE ARE A SWEET SAVOR (FRAGRANCE) OF CHRIST TO GOD AMONG THOSE WHO ARE BEING SAVED AND THOSE WHO ARE PERISHING”  Eph.5:2 “Be followers of God….walk in love, as CHRIST also has love us, and has given himself for us an OFFERING and a SACRIFICE TO GOD FOR A SWEET-SMELLING SAVOR”    What is your fragrance of choice?