The sweet-smelling fragrance of Christ permeates the air as believers surrender to God’s service, tell what He has done, and live it out. But the scent we carry is perceived differently: “To those who are perishing, we are a dreadful smell of death and doom. But to those who are being saved, we are a life-giving perfume. And who is adequate for such a task as this?” (2 Corinthians 2:16 NLT).
People choose to receive God’s life-giving news and become His child or find it offensive—the odor of death to the life they want to keep—choosing to reject God and His Son. By doing so, instead of everlasting life with God, they receive God’s condemnation and eternal separation from Him. Though we should never sugarcoat God’s Word, we must not only obediently but accurately present it in a way pleasing to the Lord. Each hearer decides whether God’s message and its bearers are the smell of “death and doom” or a “life-giving perfume”—their decision of which scent to follow is for eternity. But the question is: Does your life’s scent attract others to Jesus or repel them?
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