Perfuming or Embalming?

In the case of Esther where she was bathed first and then the perfuming happened.  She was bathed to get rid of any trace of dirt from her past.  Any wrong thinking, wrong processing, any ways of the old man.  Our old habits and ways of thinking come from our old self which is now dead.  So we are literally walking around with the stench of a dead person.  At this point there are two choices.  Either a bath or embalming.  One restores the old man and one restores the new.  But make no mistake perfuming before a bath is nothing more than embalming.  It may look pretty on the outside but inside is filled with death and decay.  Even embalming only holds off the inevitable for so long.  I look back over the last 9 months when I went through my party phase.  Where I was grasping desperately to cover up the hurt and the pain but it literally was killing me slowly.  The smell of death began to seep out because you can only keep it hidden for so long. Sometimes there are “friends” that come to visit you in the tomb and they bring more spices so as to cover up the stench.  WOWZERS.  Yep I know that feeling.