Smelling Like Jesus — Transferring Life and Death

Smelling Like Jesus — Transferring Life and Death

And, as He reminded the church at Thessalonica, we are appointed and divinely assigned to suffer, for Christ sake, as we sojourn through world for the glory of God.

Throughout God's word we find that He uses trouble in the process of His transformation. He uses trials and suffering like a professor that uses his OWN textbook to reinforce what H'se been teaching us. The storms (troubles) that the Lord has designed are like a syllabus... they have been well thought out and orchestrated to teach us valuable lessons on how He sees things and also to prepare us for the fire that will test our faith and for sweet future of His presence and glory.

The ordained sufferings we experience, as a child of God, are part of the curriculum of a disciple of the Lord Jesus. It's all been established to mold us and manifest the life of Christ through our lives. And in the process the Lord builds a hope in us... a hope that will NEVER disappoint. He uses us, and our experience through the storms of life, to bring comfort, strength and deliverance to others.

"Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph IN Christ, and THROUGH us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in EVERY place. For we are to God the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing. To the one we are the aroma of death leading to death, and to the other the aroma of life leading to life. And who is sufficient for these things?" (2 Corinthians 2:14-17)

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