It’s interesting how there are some pleasant smells that you would not necessarily expect. For example: freshly cut grass, freshly brewed coffee, freshly cut wood, fresh rainfall on dry pavement, freshly sharpened pencil. Those have such a distinct smell that your imagination probably just brought all of those to your senses. To look at those things is one thing, but to smell them enhances the entire experience.
Consider this. When someone of the world “sees” you with their eyes, it may not be much different than your eyes “seeing” a pot of coffee brewing. BUT, what happens when they “smell” you? Wait! What? Smell you? As with the apostle Paul, we are intended to be instruments in the hands of God, who “through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place” (2 Cor. 2:14). Now, not every likes the smell of coffee brewing and not everyone likes the fragrance of Christ (2:16), but we ought to be so distinct that folks find in us something pleasant, even when they may not have expected it. So, what do others smell when around you?
