The 5 Senses Project

Touch

Sight

Hearing

Smell

Taste

 

“Humans have five basic senses: touch, sight, hearing, smell and taste. The sensing organs associated with each sense send information to the brain to help us understand and perceive the world around us.”  

 

According to researchers, we are able to smell over 1 trillion scents. ⁽¹⁾ We smell using what is called the ‘olfactory cleft’, that is located on the roof of our nasal cavity. It has nerve endings in the olfactory cleft that transmits various smells to our brain. The sense of smell is important Biblically speaking, because it is involved in how we smell to God. According to scripture we smell as fragrant perfume to our Lord. 

The Temple of God had an altar of incense which was filled with Frankincense. The altar was in the Holy Place, right outside the Holy of Holies or Most Holy Place. The smoke from the incense would rise and flow over the veil into the Most Holy Place and fill that place with the fragrant smell of the Frankincense herb. The priests taught that the smoke carried the prayers of the people up to God.

Ephesians 5:2 says, “Walk in love, as Christ also has loved us, and has given Himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for the sweet-smelling fragrance.” In place of the incense burned in the Holy Temple of God in the Old Testament, Christ’s sacrifice of himself for our sins was a fragrant scent to God. We are also as a pleasing scent to our God if we walk in righteousness and are blameless before the Lord.

Right living is paramount in a believer’s life. While there may be several ways to look at certain scriptures, the crux of our belief is never open to interpretation; that being the existence of God, the fact that Jesus was God’s Son, the fact that Jesus was the Christ, the Messiah who willingly died a grisly death on a wooden cross to pay for the multitude of man’s sins. No deviation from those key elements if allowed. Forgiveness is freely available. It’s a prepaid gift. Receive it today. Until next time, walk with the King and be a blessing.

Richard Keller

Bread of Life Ministries 

 

⁽¹⁾ The American Rhinologic Society.