At the moment I have all I need - and more! 

I am generously supplied with the gifts you sent me with Epaphroditus. They are a sweet-smelling sacrifice that is acceptable and pleasing to God.

Philippians 4:18 NLT

Have you been on one of those lockdown walks and gone past a garden and the sweet smell of a plant has found you? 

Maybe it's fresh cut grass.

Or after the spring rain.

Or fresh cut firewood sitting in your driveway...maybe for you it's the smell of the sea...or food cooking...

When those sweet good smells find us it warms something, connects with something deep within. 

Perhaps it's a good memory, and perhaps it's hope. 

The sweet smell of the Philippians giving found God. In a very human limited sense it's like the sweet smell of our acts of love and giving waft towards God. And as these sweet-smells find Him, He gets that feeling of goodness, and of hope. 

The sweet-smells of those moments of giving money, time and resources to and for others, those small everyday acts of love and kindness, finds its way to the heart of God...

#lockdownlessons

#monday

#worship

#givingisanactofworship