{"id":5416,"date":"2025-07-07T01:19:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T01:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=5416"},"modified":"2025-07-11T01:12:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T01:12:21","slug":"the-fragrance-of-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=5416","title":{"rendered":"The Fragrance of Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>After I left home at the age of nineteen, one of the sweet memories of home was the fragrance of blooming lilacs on a spring breeze.  We had a row of lilacs down through the middle of our back yard and every spring they gave off a fragrance that you could not forget.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>After we pass through their midst what do others remember about you and I?  Is it the fragrance of Christ?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em><strong>Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place.<\/strong><\/em>  <em><strong>For we are to God the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.<\/strong><\/em>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em><strong>To the one we are the aroma of death leading to death, and to the other the aroma of life leading to life. And who is sufficient for these things?<\/strong><\/em>  <em><strong>For we are not, as so many, peddling the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as from God, we speak in the sight of God in Christ.<\/strong><\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>II Corinthians 2:14-17<\/strong> <strong>NKJV<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">.<em><strong>..let the word of Christ dwell <\/strong><\/em><strong>(take up its life)<\/strong><em><strong> in you richly&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After I left home at the age of nineteen, one of the sweet memories of home was the fragrance of blooming lilacs on a spring breeze. We had a row of lilacs down through the middle of our back yard and every spring they gave off a fragrance that you could not forget. After we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=5416\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Fragrance of Christ<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5416"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5441,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416\/revisions\/5441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}