Saturating Your Home With God’s Divine Fragrance
If you are passionate about making your home a sanctuary, use your five senses to make your home a pleasing place of ministry. Your ability to see, hear, taste and smell become essential elements to creating a beautiful and tranquil living space.
I love scents especially colognes, perfumes and the various sweet smells available for the home. Have you ever entered a home, and you were greeted by a sweet fragrance? One of my fondest memories growing up was visiting my grandmother’s home. Every Friday we would go to her house for fried chicken and homemade rolls.
My grandmother had a warm and embracing home. She joyfully shared her gift of hospitality. My grandmother loved us dearly. She always made us feel special and welcomed; whether you were invited or just dropped by.
I vividly remember her house fragrance; an Avon product saturating her home with a sweet smell of roses. You could smell the rose scent in every room. When she hugged you, she smelled liked roses. When you left my grandmother’s home, you smelled liked roses, too.
The Fragrance of the Anointing
If you are going to make your home a sanctuary, entering your home should be symbolic of crossing into a threshold of a secret place where you can smell God’s anointing oil. The bible discusses a unique fragrant anointing oil in Exodus 30:23-25 (KJV). A.W. Tozer, a 20th century pastor and author said, “The fragrance of the anointing oil was unique. If someone went near an Old Testament priest, he would say immediately, I smell an anointed man. I smell the holy oil. The aroma, the pungency, the fragrance was there. Such an anointing could not be kept a secret. “
The Fragrance of God’s Divine Love
How beautiful it would be, if your home was saturated with God’s divine fragrance. Can you smell the holy spirit in your home? What would it smell like? Your home’s atmosphere would have a divine scent; an aroma of peace, tranquility and love.
Saturating your home with God’s fragrance, allows you to walk in love with anyone who enters your home. God’s presence would be felt inf every room including your outside spaces. In Ephesians 5:1-2 (KJV) Paul wrote: “Therefore be imitators of God as dear children. And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling aroma.” Paul also reminds us that, “For we are to God the fragrance of Christ.” (2 Cor2:15) KJV. This type of fragrance only comes from knowing God and letting his light live within you. You must become a walking fragrance of Christ, if you are to make your home a sanctuary.
Take a moment and relax and journal your response to the following questions.
* What fragrance do you smell in your home?
* When do you experience the fragrance of God in your home?
* When others enter your home, do they experience God’s fragrance? If so, please explain.
