Finally I found my formal clothes, but because my mom puts it in the closet for quite a long time – it smell like… hmmm… So I quickly sprayed some Febreze, that wonderful fabric refresher onto my clothes. Oh, it smells so good! My mom said, “Surely, you don’t need to use perfume. This ‘thing’ is enough”. Okay mom, I know.
There was no Febreze during New Testament time, but
they have a natural perfume called frankincense. ‘Pearl tears of frankincense tumble gently from the fresh cut in a
Boswellia tree. The resin hardens into jagged stones burned as incense, to
produce a haunting, woody fragrance’, writes Stephen M. Miller author
of The Jesus of the Bible. I
imagined, it gave off a lovely sweet-smelling fragrance when the scholars from
the East “opened
their luggage and presented gifts: …frankincense…” (Or maybe not, it should be burned first).
Now, as gold speaks of
Jesus’ sovereignty (read Part 1), so the frankincense speaks of His perfect,
sinless life – His divinity.
The God-man Jesus lived a life of quiet obedience to His Father, always doing those things that would please God, always living a life of blessing to everyone (well, to those who believed His message of Truth). He healed the lame, the blind and the deaf. He healed the broken-hearted and raised the dead. His life was a sweet-smelling fragrance to God no matter where He goes. By men’s standard, He was not so impressive; but by God’s standard, He was perfect. His was a beautiful life.
The celebration of
Christmas therefore, for Christ-believers is a called to live a sweet-smelling-fragrance
life to God and letting others to smell the odour of God’s love in our life –
but you see; that made possible only if you let Jesus’ perfect life lived in
you – Have you ask the Holy Spirit to live in you? Ask now.
Merry Christmas!
THINK BIG. START SMALL. GO DEEP.
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