Every saintly life on earth, is a
sweet fragrance unto God, and every sinful life is
a stench in his nostrils. As the rose scents the
evening air, so a pure life scatters a sweet Christian
influence and a knowledge of God throughout the world.
The literal translation of 2 Cor. 2:14 reads
thus: “But thanks be to God, who leads me
on from place to place in the train of his triumph,
to celebrate his victory over the enemies of Christ,
and by me sends forth the knowledge of him, a stream
of fragrant incense, throughout the world.”
A saintly life diffuses a sweet, heavenly fragrance
throughout the world, and brings a knowledge of God
and the nature of his salvation to the minds of men.
Let me exhort you, therefore, to a pure life, a life
full of devotion and reverence to God. You can
make your life, by God’s grace, a constant,
flowing stream of fragrant incense, whose sweetness
will linger long on the air after you have passed
to higher realms. So may it be.