I wish you could be sitting with me at my desk. There is the most alluring, the most intoxicating, the most enthralling, and the most exhilarating fragrance drifting from the kitchen to my nose. I am struggling to stay in my chair. I want so badly to invade the kitchen and pull open the oven door. Whatever is in there is no longer a desire. It has transformed itself into a need. By sheer force of will and discipline I continue to write to you instead of pulling up a chair in front of the oven, turning on the oven light and just watching whatever it is. I am waiting for the oven buzzer to sound out, “It is ready. Come and get it.” If my wife wants to punish me for some errant behavior (of course, there never is such a thing) all she need do is say, “It’s not for now. It is for the church potluck.” I cannot bear the thought.
2 Corinthians 2:15 says, “We are a sweet perfume of Christ to God in those who are getting salvation . . .” God is so very anxious to have us with Him. He longs to have us pull up a chair and stay awhile. (Forever) Often we speak of our longing for the second coming of Jesus that will end this pall of pain and restore things to the way it was supposed to be. If we think we are waiting we need but realize we only wait a few decades. He has waited now for 2000 years. For 2000 years the sweet aroma of the redeemed has filled His nostrils and He wants us.
Written by Roger Bothwell on August 4, 2011
Spring of Life Ministry, PO Box 124, St. Helena, CA 94574
Rogerbothwell.org