When you hear the word “aroma” what comes to your mind? Perfume or maybe flowers or the air after a rain, or maybe a terrible stench? We’re spending some time with the apostle Paul these days, as he had begun writing yet another letter to his friends in Corinth. Unlike 1 Corinthians, and the two other letters of conviction Paul wrote but which have been lost over the centuries, this letter we know as 2 Corinthians is an encouraging celebration of what God was doing among the Christians in Corinth.
In chapter 2 Paul wrote: “Thanks be to God who always leads us as captives in Christ’s triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of Jesus Christ 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.” (2 Cor. 2:14-16)
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