Breaking with Fragrance

Though this blog is still under construction and  I have had moments that I looked to God with many questions, but he steady reminds me it's not about me :-)

To further encourage me I found two cards that I had intentions to open on Christmas Day but forgot until yesterday. God is amazing after  reading this one card, I was in tears.  My duty hours here is very limited with spending time with people, I'm going to work when everyone else is just falling into a deep sleep. This one sweet female , I exchange shifts with was starting her countdown upon my arrival here. The most time I  spent with her was less than an hour, but she left me a card , heavenly sent for me prior to leaving. As I opened it up and read the body of the handwritten card said, "I enjoyed working with you, our conversations, I will miss you and you are amazing ".

One may wonder why we're you in tears? Nothing about me scream amazing.  I read this letter in the middle of my crying out...Lord I can't do this it's beyond me, why blogging, but after reading this card it brought me back to this blog. Not only that my first thirty days I was lonely, blinded, missing my friends and family as if we'd never see each other again ,until I refocused on Jesus. See unveiling the fragrance of Christ forces you to cry out to Jesus instead of lashing out to man. It allows others to see Jesus through you even when you are going through. It pricks your heart to love others you don't know. It turns your stumbling into a walking. We have to invite Him in whenever time permits and the little smiles that you place on others face is a reflection of what He is doing in your life daily. I became filled with tears because His fragrance on me fill the room enough for someone who may have been hurting to have peace again.

This week we will dive in a little deeper on our breaking as we unveil His Fragrance.


Questions of today:

Where are you breaking/lashing out is it for all to see? Or is it during worshipping at Jesus feet?

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you. (Ephesians 4:31, 32 NKJV)

Is your scent pulling people to God or away?

For we are to God the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing. To the one we are the aroma of death leading to death, and to the other the aroma of life leading to life. And who is sufficient for these things? For we are not, as so many, peddling the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as from God, we speak in the sight of God in Christ. (II Corinthians 2:15-17 NKJV)

Has forgiveness kept you from carrying a Jesus like fragrance ? Forgiveness is for our sake.It releases and free our hearts and hands from the sin of anger by turning it over to Jesus.

And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.” And they came again to Jerusalem. And as he was walking in the temple, the chief priests and the scribes and the elders came to him, (Mark 11:25-27)

Oh, Lord, search us today, you know our every way, help us to be a light of love for others  who are struggling with forgiveness. Help each of us to take on your frangrance even while we are going through our own breaking and Help me to draw others into Your presence that they too would be set free from the bondage and darkness and unveiled in your presence. Amen

 // signed //

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