1 Peter 2:19-25 NIV — For it is commendable if someone bears up under the pain of unjust suffering because they are conscious of God. But how is it to your credit if you receive a beating for doing wrong and endure it? But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God. To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps. “He committed no sin and no deceit was found in his mouth.” When they hurled their insults at him, he did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no threats. Instead, he entrusted himself to him who judges justly. “He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness. “By his wounds you have been healed.” For “you were like sheep going astray,” but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

If you have been reading the blog all this week you know that each day I featured the same scripture. Each day I shared part of the message that I shared at church last Sunday. I have thought a lot about the quote from Scott Hoezee in which he said, “Getting graced by God is like getting dipped into a vat of perfume: the residue of the fragrance should waft off of you from then on.”

My prayer is that as we examined ourselves, we received a fresh dip into the vat of God’s grace over the last week. May “the residue of the fragrance of God’s grace waft off of us.” May our hearts be molded more and more like Christ each day and when others criticize us, unfairly judge us, attack us or spread rumors about us, may we respond like Christ and extend the grace of God. May each of us have a God scent.

Let’s pray. Dear God, Thank You for a fresh dip in the vat of Your grace. May I have a holy residue of Your fragrance and may I be known as being God scent. In Jesus’ name, I pray. Amen.