Fragrant Offering

I offer all of me, soul, body, and spirit, as a fragrant offering to you, my Jesus. All that I am is yours. Every gift, every talent, every scar and every sin I lay at your feet. Use me however you want to. Engulf me in your presence. Let your fresh wind dance around me and make me bend at your awesome power. Extract from me a fragrance that is pleasing to you. I want you to delight in me and I in you. You make me rise above the darkness and bring me into the light. You enhance my beauty. I am beautiful in you.

You are worthy of my sacrifice. You are worthy to have all of me. I am your Lilly amoung thorns.

“Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.”

Romans 12:1 NIV

“Awake, north wind, and come, south wind! Blow on my garden, that its fragrance may spread everywhere. Let my beloved come into his garden and taste its choice fruits.”

Song of Songs 4:16 NIV

“Like a lily among thorns is my darling among the young women.”

Song of Songs 2:2 NIV

“You have stolen my heart, my sister, my bride; you have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace. How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much more pleasing is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your perfume more than any spice! Your lips drop sweetness as the honeycomb, my bride; milk and honey are under your tongue. The fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon.”

Song of Songs 4:9-11 NIV

“Then Mary took about a pint of pure nard, an expensive perfume; she poured it on Jesus’ feet and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.”

John 12:3 NIV