Today I learned that my dog has 25 times the number of scent sensors than I do. She has over 200 million receptors. No wonder dogs love to go for walks. There is so much to enjoy. This evening on our walk we, my wife and I, detected someone cooking with lots of curry, next we walked through a cloud that must have come from someone’s very moldy basement. This was followed by the scent of someone’s dryer and finally another meal with a strong meaty scent. If my dog really can detect smells many times fainter than we can, I wish she could talk and give us a guided tour of our neighborhood.
One of my favorite verses is II Corinthians 2, God “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. To the one we are an aroma that brings death; to the other, an aroma that brings life.”
I think we have all been around people who leave us with a bad scent. They seem to spoil an occasion almost just because they are there. How grand if we could leave a “pleasing aroma” wherever we went. This week I entered a large department store and was immediately whelmed with a wonderful smell. At first I thought it was coming from the cosmetic section but that was far away. Then I remembered that stores scent the air in the air conditioning system. They know if it smells good we just might purchase something. If we also smelled great might someone also want to have Jesus in their life?
Written by Roger Bothwell on September 4, 2013
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