During our Easter discussions we looked at how when Mary washed Jesus feet with oil she was actually anointing him as a king. We talked about how a king would have been anointed with oil to have the fragrance of a king then paraded among his people (See Triumphant Entry). We also talked about how the fragrance of the oil would have stayed with Jesus all the way through his death. What does all this mean for us?
Read 2 Corinthians 2:14-17 journal your thoughts
Did you catch it? As followers of Jesus we are called to be the fragrance or aroma of Christ. So what does that mean? Just like Jesus had the fragrance of a king everywhere that he went and in everything that he did during that last week, in the same way we are supposed to represent Jesus is everywhere we go and in everything we do.
So what does this look like lived out? No this doesn’t mean that we need to smell a certain way (sorry literalists), but like an aroma, it’s something you notice right away, it’s something that is so much a part of you that it’s always in the middle of everything you do. This is what it means to be the fragrance of Jesus, we are so much like Jesus that we are like him in everything that we do and everywhere we go.
Today may you be so much like Jesus that your give off the aroma of a King.
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