Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.

Leviticus chapter 2 verse 9

and the priest shall take from the grain offering its memorial portion

and burn this on the altar, a food offering

with a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

This is one of those phrases we see repeated over and over and over again in Leviticus pertaining to these offerings.

They were pleasing aromas to the Lord.

And I think about language in Romans chapter 12 for example when Paul writes I

urge you therefore brothers by the mercy of God to offer your bodies a living

sacrifice wholly and acceptable or pleasing to the Lord.

The picture there in Romans in the New Testament, based on this picture in the Old Testament is not put an animal on the

altar as a sacrifice that would be pleasing to God. Instead, put your life on the altar as a sacrifice that will be pleasing to God.

So the whole picture of New Testament Christianity is every one of our lives as followers of Christ laid down before the Lord with one purpose

we want to be pleasing to God. We want our lives to be a pleasing aroma to him so we pray God today

May our thoughts be pleasing to you may those desires be pleasing to you.

God, our words, may they be pleasing to you,

our interactions with other people and our families and work,

the community around us.

May they be pleasing to you, our decisions,

God cause our decisions to be a pleasing aroma to you,

our actions, the way we live today, the way we love, the way we serve people around us.

God, we pray that everything in our lives would be like a pleasing aroma to you today. We pray that that would be like a pleasing aroma to you today.

...