Fragrance

Brief thoughts this time. =)  I read Psalm 69 today.

O God, you know my folly; the wrongs I have done are not hidden from you. Let not those who hope in you be put to shame through me, O Lord GOD of hosts; let not those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, O God of Israel.
Psalms 69:5-6

In high school I prayed this with the implied intention that God make me perfect.  I was afraid that if people saw me sin, they would reject Christ.

I'm still praying this today, but my intention has changed.  I don't believe that there is anything I can do to thwart God's plan of salvation for a person.  I just want to be a "fragrance" for Christ, not an "odor". =)

But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere. For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?
2 Corinthians 2:14-16