POSTING FOR February 8

II Corinthians 2:14 and 15 tells us that we are “always triumphant in Christ,” and that we, “manifest the savor of His knowledge everyplace we go, that we are the sweet-smelling fragrance of Christ unto God to both the saved and to the lost.”

This is an awesome revelation of the Lord’s expectation of us. He has not made us merely to enjoy the presence of the Holy Spirit during our sojourn in this Vale of Tears, nor has He made us only to bask in the blessedness of Heaven when He calls us home!

He has assigned us a vital task to perform in the interim between our salvation experience and our home-going and that is to represent Jesus before every life that touches ours. When people look at us, they should see the sweetness of the Lord, they should experience His compassion, they should feel His love because we are the savor of His presence.

When we exude Christ to all those round about us, we not only evidence His faith, His love, His healing power, His grace, His mercy, His forgiveness to the lost who perish for a lack of Him, but we also glorify Him afresh in the eyes of believers who are encouraged by the reality of Him that they see in us. And it is unto God that the fragrance of our devotion to Jesus arises!