WHAT FRAGRANCE WILL YOU EMIT?

Reference text: John 12:1-11

John 12:3 Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.

Without knowing what was physically in the jar, once that Alabaster jar Mary was carrying shattered, all the people in the room could discern that pure nard was in the air. It’s fragrance filled the entire room, and it’s value was immediately discernable. With  about 400grams poured, that was at least the price of the yearly wage of a regular worker.

That might seem metaphorical, but in practical terms, when your jar is broken, what fragrance will be emitted? When that outer frame of yours is scrapped bare, and the spotlight shines on what you carry within, what will show forth? What fragrance will we perceive?

Joy, love, fear of God, kindness? Or will we smell bitterness, envy, greed, mischief and disorder? In that moment, you won’t have to scream which fragrance you bear because the aroma will let others perceive what it is.

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