New Purpose, Long Scent

I found it in my cellar last week. It was an unopened box containing a Neutradol air freshener. I bought it while living in a previous home (more than 15 years ago) and the year on the box’s bottom said 2006, so I suspect I purchased it in 2007. It seemed a shame to not use it, so I duly opened it and set it to work in my bathroom. Although the fragranced, blue gel was rather more fluid than I might prefer, the scent it still emits. After all those years of sitting in its box in my cellar, useless and unemployed, it has been granted a purpose and its raison d'être.

This is a marvellous picture of people who become Christians in later life. For having found Christ (for Christ having found them), they are endowed with eternal purpose and eternal hope. They finally live for something greater than the temporal affairs of this world, and enjoy a right relationship with their Creator.