Week 3, Sunday: Smells Like Christmas

Read Ephesians 5:1-2

What's your Christmas scent? For some people, it's the smell of sugar cookies. For others, it's mulled spices. And for many people, it's just not Christmas without that Christmas tree smell.

They say that memory is most closely attached to our sense of smell. You catch a hint of a fragrance on a breeze and it takes you right back to a moment from your childhood or a treasured time that is forever lodged in your mind.

In a similar way, what Christ did for us had a spiritual scent to it. It's the smell that triggers God's memory. It takes him back to the cross. He remembers the work of Jesus dying for us instead of remembering our sins. That's a powerful aroma.

What's remarkable is that Paul tells us that when we have Christ in our lives, we can carry that same scent of Christ into the world (2 Corinthians 2:15).

What does that look like? How do we take "everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of him?" This Christmas, as you smell all the various smells, ask God to help you embody the sweet aroma of a life full of Jesus.