Today before church we spoke briefly about the church becoming a scent-free environment which I think is a good thing for now. I see too many people with problems stemming from someone else’s favorite after shave or perfume or even body wash. Now the strange thing is that ever since that conversation finished about being scent-free here, I have been smelling things totally unrelated to the people around me or my immediate surroundings. I have experienced the odours of cinnamon, nutmeg, barbeque, fresh cut grass, aromatic wood, new baby smell, summer sausage, flowers (a number of different ones), green vegetables (sweet peppers, celery, cucumber to name a few), citrus flavours, fresh bread and so many more. It seems like every time I move or the air moves around me I smell something different, and everything that I smell is good. The scents just follow each other wave after wave, each scent better the preceding one.
What I think is happening to me (no one else seems to be experiencing this) is simply the scents of the spiritual realm coming through into this world and I’m the one to take notice. Perhaps each individual scent is representing a different aspect of the Holy Spirit. I don’t know. He’s making His presence known to me without being too obvious for some reason. Maybe He’s just letting me know that he’s still around, being part of my life through the thick and thin of it (and sometimes it seems like it’s really pretty thin sometimes), just saying “Hey I’m still here, I haven’t gone anywhere, don’t worry about it too much”. Although I may not ‘see’ Him or ‘hear’ Him or ‘touch’ Him, maybe there is no actual physical connection but there are still ways that connections are made, I think that these scents all morning are a good example of this.
Although we speak of being “scent-free”, it doesn’t necessarily mean that we can be completely scent free. They are always there, and always will be, just in varying degrees of aggravation and notice. I think that these spiritual scents are always there as well, in varying degrees of notice as well. The stronger and more noticeable they are the more significant they are in recognizing that He is still hanging around even when we don’t notice.
Just a friendly nudge from the ‘other side’.
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