I’m heading up to Lake Placid, near Muncie Indiana, for a weekend ladies retreat with the East Central Baptist Association churches.  Can’t wait!

The retreat theme, “The Aroma of Christ,” intrigues me.  I found a new table game called P.U.! It has scratch and sniff cards with smells, such as roses and skunks, etc.  Of course I bought the game, and I’ll use it as a fun illustration…

Interesting, though, that all smells aren’t sweet.  And the “aroma of Christ”–the scent of a Christian–smells differently to those who are being saved and those who are perishing…

…to one it’s the fragrance of life

…to the other it’s the scent of death.

      And it’s right there in the Scripture:  WE are the aroma of God. 

       Please pray for a blessed weekend with my “sisters” in Christ.  I hope the scratch-n-sniff cards hold out!

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2 Corinthians 2:14-16 states: 

“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.  And who is equal to such a task?”

The harvest is ripe.