Ana’s uncle, Angel, recently used the word “sabrosura”, to comment on one of my posts. Intrigued I asked Ana want it means. The simplest translation of sabrosura is “tasty,” but there’s a far richer meaning. It can mean sweetness, delight, savoriness.
As I thought about that, I remembered 2 Corinthinans 2:14-15 which says, “But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ’s triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere. For we are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing.”
The KJV translates the word aroma as “savour”. We are to be the savour of Christ to the world. We are to be sabrosura.
Colombia calls itself the “Land of Sabrosura.” To Colombians, the word speaks of “a vibrant and colorful country where kindness, joy, diversity, flavor, and music come together to make people vibrate with life.” “Sabrosura is the irresistible attitude and optimism that transforms visitors into friends.”
This is what God wants our churches to be like. He wants us to be Sabrosura, irresistible, places where our “attitude and optimism…transforms visitors into friends”, places “where kindness, joy, diversity, flavor, and music come together to make people vibrate with life.”
In 2019, let’s become the Church of Sabrosura, the savour of Christ in our communities. May we, as a church and as individuals, let God use “us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere”, inviting all we meet to “Taste and see that the Lord is good.” Psalm 34:8.
God bless and have a “tasty” Sabbath!