What Does Your Life Smell Like?

My Utmost For His Highest

…seek, and you will find… —Luke 11:9

“ Seek if you have not found. “You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss…” (James 4:3). If you ask for things from life instead of from God, “you ask amiss”; that is, you ask out of your desire for self-fulfillment. The more you fulfill yourself the less you will seek God. “…seek, and you will find….” Get to work— narrow your focus and interests to this one thing. Have you ever sought God with your whole heart, or have you simply given Him a feeble cry after some emotionally painful experience? “…seek, [focus,] and you will find….”  “Ho! Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters…” (Isaiah 55:1). Are you thirsty, or complacent and indifferent— so satisfied with your own experience that you want nothing more of God? […] Remember that you can never give another person what you have found, but you can cause him to have a desire for it.  […] Have you ever lamented, expressing your sorrow before God for the condition of your inner life? There is no thread of self-pity left, only the heart-rending difficulty and amazement which comes from seeing what kind of person you really are. “Humble yourselves…” (James 4:10).” CHAMBERS

So here is the question.  Does your life exhibit a devotion and dependence upon God?  Does your life, what you do and say, reflect the world or the Word?  Are people drawn to God because of what they see in you as you live your life in response to life? 2 Corinthians 2:14-15 “But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ’s triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere.  For we are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing.” 

Have you ever walked into someone’s home and the fragrance there told you they had been baking pastries?  In the same way, we should be living our lives I such a way that people know we are Christians.   Although most people love the smell of freshly baked cookies, there are some who do not.   And so it is with how people will respond to the person living with total trust in God.  ELGIN

Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless You)