Smell (5 of 5)
Series: Making Sense of Our Senses
Ernest L. Easley
John 12:1-7; 2 Corinthians 2:12-17
This month we have been discovering that God gave us our five senses not only to help us function physically, but to give us faith spiritually! It's a part of being made in His image!
*We Taste because He tastes.
*We See because He sees.
*We Hear because He hears.
*We Touch because He touches.
*We Smell because He smells.
When I consider what's included in being made in His image, I can say along with the Psalmist in Psalm139.14, ''I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: Marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well.'' Think about it:
*God gave us Taste to help keep us satisfied.
*God gave us Sight to help keep us safe.
*God gave us Hearing to help make us sure.
*God gave us Touch to help make us secure.
*God gave us Smell to help make us sharp.
But He primarily gave us these five senses to help make us saved; that is, to bring us into a relationship with Him through His Son, Jesus Christ.
As we wrap up our study under the heading:
MAKING SENSE OF OUR SENSES, we come to the fifth sense: the sense of SMELL. So how much does our nose, know? And better still: How does our nose know what it knows?
Our smell is the mute sense, the one without words.
*We SEE only when there's enough light,
*We TASTE only when we put things into our mouth,
*We TOUCH only when we make contact with something,
*We HEAR only sounds that are loud enough.
*But we SMELL always and with every breath!
*Cover your eyes and you will stop seeing.
*Cover your ears and you will stop hearing.
*Cover your nose and try to stop smelling, you'll die!
In the book, A Natural History of the Senses, we read, ''Breaths come in pairs, except at two times in our lives: the beginning and the end. At birth, we inhale for the first time; at death, we exhale the last time. In between, every day we ...
Series: Making Sense of Our Senses
Ernest L. Easley
John 12:1-7; 2 Corinthians 2:12-17
This month we have been discovering that God gave us our five senses not only to help us function physically, but to give us faith spiritually! It's a part of being made in His image!
*We Taste because He tastes.
*We See because He sees.
*We Hear because He hears.
*We Touch because He touches.
*We Smell because He smells.
When I consider what's included in being made in His image, I can say along with the Psalmist in Psalm139.14, ''I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: Marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well.'' Think about it:
*God gave us Taste to help keep us satisfied.
*God gave us Sight to help keep us safe.
*God gave us Hearing to help make us sure.
*God gave us Touch to help make us secure.
*God gave us Smell to help make us sharp.
But He primarily gave us these five senses to help make us saved; that is, to bring us into a relationship with Him through His Son, Jesus Christ.
As we wrap up our study under the heading:
MAKING SENSE OF OUR SENSES, we come to the fifth sense: the sense of SMELL. So how much does our nose, know? And better still: How does our nose know what it knows?
Our smell is the mute sense, the one without words.
*We SEE only when there's enough light,
*We TASTE only when we put things into our mouth,
*We TOUCH only when we make contact with something,
*We HEAR only sounds that are loud enough.
*But we SMELL always and with every breath!
*Cover your eyes and you will stop seeing.
*Cover your ears and you will stop hearing.
*Cover your nose and try to stop smelling, you'll die!
In the book, A Natural History of the Senses, we read, ''Breaths come in pairs, except at two times in our lives: the beginning and the end. At birth, we inhale for the first time; at death, we exhale the last time. In between, every day we ...
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