#2778 – Smoke Or Christ

Good morning people who give off the aroma of Christ

“Do we walk through life with the smell of smoke or the fragrance of Christ?”

Let me explain what I mean. In Daniel 3, we find the story of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego and the fiery furnace. After they had come out of the intense furnace, this is what was said about them:

Daniel 3:27b (NIV) …the fire had not harmed their bodies, nor was a hair of their heads singed; their robes were not scorched, and there was no smell of fire on them.

In other words, there was no evidence that they had been in a fiery furnace! Instead, I think the following could be said about them:

2 Corinthians 2:15 (NIV) For we are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing.

“So, what is the aroma of your life?”

Circumstances don’t determine this. Choices do.