Category: 2 Corinthians

Being the Aroma of Christ

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Read through the Bible in 2 Years: 2 Corinthians 2

But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere. For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?

2 Corinthians 2:14-16 ESV

Seeing the news about the attack on Israel makes me nervous, but it also makes me excited to think that Christ will be returning soon! Just think: we might be the generation that gets caught up alive to meet Him in the air!

Dear sisters, are you ready for His return? Are you watching and waiting with eyes wide open? Are you prepared to meet Jesus face to face?

I hope that in these last days we will be faithful to share the gospel and to make disciples of Jesus Christ. Our aroma will be pleasing to God and pleasing to fellow believers, but to the lost, it’s going to be stinky. Don’t be surprised when others reject you and ridicule you. Even when the people next to you are yelling, “Turn out the light! I’m trying to sleep over here!” Keep on shining! God is pleased with your faithfulness.

Sharing Comfort

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Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For as we share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too. If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we suffer.

2 Corinthians 1:3-6 ESV

I’m a member of an elite group of women, but it’s a group that I never signed up for and that I never wanted to join: moms who have lost a baby. I have two children waiting in heaven for me, neither of which I ever held in my arms. The first was just a little gummy bear when he went straight to heaven. The other was six inches long with ten fingers, ten toes, and a very big belly.

As much as I never wanted to join the “Moms of Heavenly Babies” club, now I’m thankful to be a member. I have learned so much through the pain about God and myself. My confidence that God is real and on His throne, and that He truly is the God of comfort, is a direct result of this grief.

God has used this affliction to minister through me to many other women. In fact, God opened the doors for me to found an online ministry and even write a book.

Is there a trial that you’re walking through right now or have walked through in the past? How has God used it for good? How can you comfort someone else with the comfort you received from Him?

Heavenly Father, I thank You for the cross on which Jesus died, His blood poured out for me. I thank You for the example that He gave of suffering pain that others might experience joy and comfort. Help me, Father, to bear my cross with joy and thanksgiving, looking to You and to the promise of eternal life of heaven. Let me not grow weary or faint, for my hope is built on the solid rock of Jesus Christ. Please use my testimony for the building up of the body. Help me to comfort others with the comfort that I’ve received from Your Word and Your presence. In the matchless name of Jesus Christ I pray. Amen.