HEART NOSE or HEART KNOWS
"Daddy, how can your heart have a nose?
Do I really have a heart nose?" asked the Heart Farmer's Daughter.
"Well my little Beauty, it's kind of like smelling this manure that we
use as fertilizer in our fields. When we first spread the manure it
stinks but after we get used to it, we don't smell it anymore. It's
almost like everything blends in with the smell of the manure.
Sometimes we go into the big city and we see homeless folks. Some of
them don't have a place to bathe and they smell. Most people look at the
homeless folks like they are disgusting, dirty things. But, my little
Beauty, they are people with hopes and dreams just like you and me. We
can smell a person who hasn't had a bath and hold our noses while we
walk away to escape the smell. Or we can stay and look into their eyes
and smile and say; 'It's good to see ya! How can I help you?' When we
stay around them long enough, the smell seems to go away and love takes
over. That's what happens when our heart knows how to show love to
everybody we meet." Said the Heart Farmer.
"Oh Daddy, I think I
understand now! You mean it's not really a heart nose, it's really a
heart knows!" Her Dad the Heart Farmer smiled: "Yes Beauty, your heart
knows how to give off the aroma of Jesus by showing love for our
neighbor!"
The Heart Farmer's daughter grinned from both sides of her heart and said:
"I love you Daddy!"
2 Corinthians 2:15
Amplified Bible
"For we are the sweet fragrance of Christ [which exhales] unto God,
[discernible alike] among those who are being saved and among those who
are perishing:"
2 Corinthians 2:15
King James Version
"For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:"
2 Corinthians 2:15
The Message
"14-16In the Messiah, in Christ, God leads us from place to place in
one perpetual victory parade. Through us, he brings knowledge of Christ.
Everywhere we go, people breathe in the exquisite fragrance. Because of
Christ, we give off a sweet scent rising to God, which is recognized by
those on the way of salvation—an aroma redolent with life. But those on
the way to destruction treat us more like the stench from a rotting
corpse."
Author's Note: (I wonder if we ourselves are on our
way to destruction when we treat people like they are the stench from a
rotting corpse?)
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| The Heart Farmer and his daughter Beauty at Daughter's and Dad's Night sponsored by The Chapel. |
