Our Daily Bread Devotional 29 September 2022 ODB Today ||

Our Daily Bread Devotional 29 September 2022 ODB Today Titled The Coffee-Bean Bowl

OUR DAILY BREAD ODB DEVOTIONAL OF THE DAY, THURSDAY 29TH SEPTEMBER 2022

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TOPIC: THE COFFEE-BEAN BOWL

Our Daily Bread Devotional 29th September 2022 ODB Today || Bible Verse

We are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ. – 2 Corinthians 2:15

Our Daily Bread Devotional 29 September 2022 ODB Today || Today’s Scripture: John 12:1–7

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I’m not a coffee drinker, but one sniff of coffee beans brings me a moment of both solace and wistfulness. When our teenage daughter Melissa was making her bedroom uniquely hers, she filled a bowl with coffee beans to permeate her room with a warm, pleasant scent.

It’s been nearly two decades since Melissa’s earthly life ended in a car accident at age seventeen, but we still have that coffee-bean bowl. It gives us a continual, aromatic remembrance of Mell’s life with us.

Scripture also uses fragrances as a reminder. Song of Songs refers to fragrances as a symbol of love between a man and a woman (see 1:3; 4:11, 16). In Hosea, God’s forgiveness of Israel is said to be “fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon” (Hosea 14:6). And Mary’s anointing of Jesus’ feet, which caused the house of Mary and her siblings to be “filled with the fragrance of the perfume” (John 12:3), pointed ahead to Jesus’ death (see v. 7).

The idea of fragrance can also help us be mindful of our testimony of faith to those around us. Paul explained it this way: “We are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing” (2 Corinthians 2:15).

Just as the scent of coffee beans reminds me of Melissa, may our lives produce a scent of Jesus and His love that reminds others of their need of Him. By: Dave Branon

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Our Daily Bread Devotional 29 September 2022 ODB Today || Reflect: How can you be “the fragrance of Christ” to someone today? How has your life caused others to sense the presence of the Savior?