How do we smell?

I recently received the highest compliment from this cute little 5 year old girl. When I asked her dad for permission to write about her and borrow a picture from his Facebook page, I remembered how cute she looked with her older brother on Easter.

The compliment happened one morning when I was volunteering at Vacation Bible School at my church. As I started to squat down to talk to a preschool group, this adorable girl with dark, curly hair ran up and gave me a big hug, then said, 

“Oh, you smell sooo good.” 

“Thank you! ...... I was hoping I smelled good today,” I replied.

“You smell like cupcakes,” she exclaimed. 

“I love that!....... I want to smell like cupcakes,” I told her.

She giggled then ran off to her leader who was blowing bubbles.

As I thought about her later that morning, a verse came to my mind.

2 Corinthians 2:15-16 NLT

Our lives are a Christ-like fragrance rising up to God . But the fragrance is perceived differently by those who are being saved and by those who are perishing.(16) To those who are perishing, we are a dreadful smell of death and doom. But to those who are being saved, we are a life-giving perfume.  And who is adequate for such a task as this?  

Hmmm -

I wonder if Jesus smells like cupcakes.  Perhaps to a five year old, that is exactly how he smells.  

I want to be a “life giving perfume”.  But, what does that smell like?

Perhaps, it is completely different to an adult. But, if that means I smell like cupcakes to a five year old, that is exactly how I want to smell.