Scent of Love

On the third month of the 16^th day of the year two thousand fifteen I woke to these words, “I am sending my son to scent of love.” 

Not sure as what all this entailed I said to the Lord, “May it be as you have said Lord Jesus.”

It being 4AM, I pondered these words as I drifted back to sleep… these words spoken as if part of a conversation, a conversation I was not all the way privy.  A story… a mysterious plan held in the hands of the all-knowing wondrous God, my keeper. 

“They are plans for good not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.” Jeremiah 29:11

Still what did He mean by “scent” of love?

When I rose, I remembered the utterance I had heard early that morning and I was reminded of a scripture that spoke of a sweet smelling fragrance.   

“But thank God!  He has made us his captives and continues to lead us along in Christ’s triumphal procession. Now he uses us to spread the knowledge of Christ everywhere, like a sweet perfume.  Our lives are a Christ-like fragrance rising up to God.  But this fragrance is perceived differently by those who are being saved and by those who are perishing.  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 2:14-17

“Who is adequate for such as task?”

This question made my mind stir… To not let my mind drift too far in any given direction I submitted God’s love, the love that keeps us. 

What makes us adequate for such a task to God?  Obviously looking at our biblical examples of Moses, Gideon, Joseph, Jeremiah, David, Esther, Peter and so on… it is not anything that comes from ourselves.  

And what makes this sweet perfume?

It’s our relationship with God.  This fragrance is God emanating His love in and through us.

“In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent His only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.”       1 John 4:9

I was then reminded of the dream that I posted last month.  http://prisonersetfree.blogspot.com/2015/02/dream.html 

Being reminded of the auburn hair woman in modest dress that I danced with - that supernaturally emanated these wondrous godly characteristics.  I revisited the post…

There it was clear again that it was her relationship she had with God that caused her to possess these godly virtues… virtues that I admired and I too wanted to simulate in my life submitted to God.        

When I reread the post my eyes also fell upon these verses about the bride.          

“You are like a private garden, my treasure, my bride! You are like a spring that no one else can drink from, a fountain of my own.  You are like a lovely orchard bearing precious fruit, with the rarest of perfumes: nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, myrrh and aloes, and perfume from every incense tree, and every other lovely spice.   You are a garden fountain, a well of living water, as refreshing as the streams from the Lebanon mountains.”   Song of Songs 4:12-15

How does the Bride of Christ bear precious fruit and the rarest perfumes?  How can the Bride of Christ be garden fountain or a well of living water? 

Not without God.  For these desirable fruits and perfumes cannot be produced or manufactured by the world but by God alone.  This garden fountain cannot bring peace and joyful sounds into the “garden” without God.   And this well of living water surely cannot happen without God living in it.

Jesus said, “but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.” John 4:14

Jesus said "Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me.  “I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.” John 15:5

  

Jesus is saying abide in me and live and to know what it means to live.  For in surrendered submission to Him, He liberates our soul from the world and ourselves.  And in living in that liberation God gives, we show what it means to live immersed in God’s love.

This is the same message God spoke to me when I asked Him. “How do we persist in your wonderful freeing manifesting presence?”  And he replied, “Stay in my love.”   Post link: http://prisonersetfree.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-reality-of-god-manifesting-him-in.html

God doesn’t want us to be religious and carried away in the flesh which is just stench and acrid smell to his nostrils (Isaiah 65:5, Isaiah 29:13, Isaiah 64:6) nor does He want us to be burdened and grow stagnate by circumstances and our own understanding.  God knows what happens when we fall into seeing life only through “human” eyes.

Jesus said “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28

Knowing and surrendering to God’s liberating love is the key!  

Do you remember this verse?

^“Still other seed fell on fertile soil. This seed grew and produced a crop that was a hundred times as much as had been planted!” Luke 8:8

The fertile soil is God’s mighty love and acceptance and surrendering to that love which has such yielding results in our life.

¹⁶ I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will empower you with inner strength through his Spirit. ¹⁷ Then Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust in him. Your roots will grow down into God’s love and keep you strong. ¹⁸ And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. ¹⁹ May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God. ²⁰ Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think.  Ephesians 3:16-20

God wants us, His children, to take advantage of the benefits of His love.  He wants His love to be at the forefront of our hearts and minds as we go about our day.  For this is the scent of a genuine Christian life that is liberated, set free, enlightened, renewed in His love which can be gracefully bestowed upon others.

“You are the salt of the earth. But what good is salt if it has lost its flavor? Can you make it salty again? It will be thrown out and trampled underfoot as worthless.  You are the light of the world—like a city on a hilltop that cannot be hidden.  No one lights a lamp and then puts it under a basket. Instead, a lamp is placed on a stand, where it gives light to everyone in the house.  In the same way, let your good deeds shine out for all to see, so that everyone will praise your heavenly Father.” Matthew 5:13-16

One might say… “let the empowering goodness of God’s love "live" in your life that you may be a scent of God’s love to those around you.”