Eau de Toilette, or What?

What does the word aroma bring to mind? (As a child,I heard too many coffee commercials using that word, no doubt-- so that's my mental image).  How about fragrance (did you choose "perfume")?  Now, try odor (probably something involving cleaning...either it needs to be, or it didn't get done well enough).  Now, read this story.

After 25 years of returning with her husband to the same winter destination, this was my friend's first year without him since he had gone to be with the Lord.  While riding her usual bus into town on her first week back sans mate, two people asked, "Where is your husband?  He always rides with you.", and "Why isn't your husband with you?"  Another day, while walking back to her apartment from the bus stop, a gardener across the street called out, "Where's your husband?  I liked that old man!"  These questions surprised her, since she had never officially met these people, nor did she remember them from previous years.

Do you ever shop at the same stores, drive the same way to work, walk the dog along the same route?  As we see people, we may give only a cursory greeting, speak briefly to a clerk, or simply make eye contact as we pass, but we are often watched while driving, walking, interacting (even if we are observed from a window), and can leave an aroma without any conversation taking place.

With Christ as the Victor, Paul gladly marched as a captive in the Lord's procession.  As incense was burned by the triumphant leaders in the Roman processions, so Paul becomes the incense--or pleasing aroma-- in Christ's train.

Where does this triumphal procession lead us, as the Lord's captives?  Will we impact someone for life or for death?

"Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of His knowledge by us in every place.  For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:  to the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life."              2Cor. 2:14-16

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