Sup guys,
So i decided to write on 2 cor2:14-16 today, in part because I've been thinking about the aroma of christ passage a lot these past week or two so....also, because im too embarrassed to write about song of songs (which i just finished reading).
If ur first thought of our position in the "triumphal procession" is as victorious followers of christ, think again. A triumphal procession was a roman tradition where the victorious war general would parade his captured enemies/prisoners through the streets of rome to display his military might. For paul to describe himself and us as participants of Christ's triumphal is not to suggest we're God's comrades, but to make plain the fact that we are God's captives. Do not let the romance of our salvation lead us to forget obedience.
What's also plain to me is that we're called to smell like Christ. By the fragrance of christ, the world is split into two sides, those to whom this aroma smells good and those to whom this aroma smells bad. Which side do we belong to? we're not required to smell good to people, that is between each person and God - only God can make his fragrance desirable to each person; but we're required to spread everywhere the "fragrance of the knowledge of him." To work like Christ would, to play like he would, serve like him, read like him, love like him, even to be angry as our Lord does. In every way possible, by our living, to display Christ to the world.
Encouragement this week, remind ourselves that if we are prisoners of Christ we should really act like it. To let God into every aspect of our lives so that we spread the fragrance of His kingdom to the ends of the earth, starting with our own little corner.
Have a happy wednesday!
Edward
"But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of him. For we are to God the aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. To the one we are the smell of death; to the other, the fragrance of life..." 2 Corinthians 2:14-16
"Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey - whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? ...You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness." Romans 6:16-17
"I come not to bring peace, but to bring a sword" - Matthew 10:34
wonder what that hamster's looking at...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWY0YpoVNug&feature=related
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