" 'Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before me.' "
Jonah 1:2
I imagine what came up before God was the stench of the wickedness of Nineveh. There are smells that will almost make you puke. I have cleaned enough barns, chicken coops and turkey pens, changed enough diapers, smelled enough skunks and the odor of dead things and bad breath and body odor, to know awful smells. I wonder if wickedness smells like these to our holy God. I wonder how America smells to God. I wonder how much my own BO makes God hold His nose. On the other hand, there are sweet aromas. The offerings of praise and worship are "a sweet aroma to the Lord" (Leviticus 2:2). When Mary poured out the ointment on Jesus, "the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil" (John 12:3). There is the sweet aroma that fills the air when we walk in love and service (Ephesians 5:2; Philippians 4:18) as we exude the "fragrance of Christ in this world" (II Corinthians 2:14-15). I can smell good or I can be a stinker. I want my life to smell good to God and to those around me.
Today's Thought: The aroma of praise and worship smells better than sin.
Have a fragrant day. Love you.
Jonah 1:2
I imagine what came up before God was the stench of the wickedness of Nineveh. There are smells that will almost make you puke. I have cleaned enough barns, chicken coops and turkey pens, changed enough diapers, smelled enough skunks and the odor of dead things and bad breath and body odor, to know awful smells. I wonder if wickedness smells like these to our holy God. I wonder how America smells to God. I wonder how much my own BO makes God hold His nose. On the other hand, there are sweet aromas. The offerings of praise and worship are "a sweet aroma to the Lord" (Leviticus 2:2). When Mary poured out the ointment on Jesus, "the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil" (John 12:3). There is the sweet aroma that fills the air when we walk in love and service (Ephesians 5:2; Philippians 4:18) as we exude the "fragrance of Christ in this world" (II Corinthians 2:14-15). I can smell good or I can be a stinker. I want my life to smell good to God and to those around me.
Today's Thought: The aroma of praise and worship smells better than sin.
Have a fragrant day. Love you.
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