Out of all of our senses, smell is the most powerful. It is amazing that you could walk in to a home or take a stroll down the road and be transported back to a place from your childhood all because...you smelled something. From going to my Grandmother's home, playing basketball at the YMCA in Philly, or arriving at a home in Knoxvegas where I saw God's spirit be poured out on a group of teenagers...Smell is the time machine that takes me there. I believe it goes the same for God. Since we are in his image, I believe smell is important to him as well. More on smell later....
You are an antelope. Ok....you are a good looking antelope. You must be...since you were selected by Noah himself to join him on a 40 day cruise on the lovely um...Arc. Hey, you might have not been selected number one...or two. In fact, you weren't even selected number five. You got in by the skin of your antler. But hey, number seven is better than number eight, right? Seven Antelopes selected to repopulate the world, and you are IN! Saved and happy to be in a dark Arc. Not the greatest of conditions, but I'd rather be saved than one of those ugly Antelope...right?
40 days are up...and land ho! Everyone is happy to be out of the Arc and saved! But then, Noah starts off the New World in dramatic fashion:
Genesis 8:20-21
20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 And when the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, the LORD said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.
Umm, excuse me! Then at that moment, Shem or Ham...you can't tell, they look similair upside down, grabs you and preps you for, well, sacrifice. At that moment you realize a most horrific truth. The only reason I was saved was for sacrifice. The last thing you remember is the smell of burnt wood....
A startling statistic was that one out of every seven clean animal had one purpose. They were saved for a purpose, a purpose of sacrifice. Noah wanted to start the new world right with a burnt offering.
So do you still wanna know what Rainbows smell like?
God didn't curse the ground again all because of a smell. That smell didn't transport him to a better time...since there was no better time this side of the garden. But it transported him to a time that kings and prophets wish they could have gotten a whiff of...a time where burnt wood would be exchanged for bloody wood. His Son smelled good....it was a perfect sacrifice.
Even the Rainbow was bought with a price. We should have known that true beauty comes with a heavy price. Maybe the next time I see a rainbow I will remember to put my nose in the air and smell the bow in the cloud. It will transport me to a time 2000 years ago. It will also transport me back 21 years ago when God came crashing in to my life. Maybe the smell will remind me that I was made for sacrifice....to give it away. A living sacrifice, that smells like the bow in the cloud.
6 comments:
Made me think of the anointing of Jesus, pouring the entire thing of expensive perfume all over Him. I bet that was a pleasing smell.
Ahhhh....that smell was so good that Jesus said that where ever the gospel would be preached,tat story would be shared. Strong indeed!
everything you do is just so mystical and beautiful. loved this.
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