God is Infinite-----Smelling
The Lord said to Moses, “Take sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum, sweet spices with pure frankincense (of each shall there be an equal part), and make an incense blended as by the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy. You shall beat some of it very small, and put part of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting where I shall meet with you. It shall be most holy for you. And the incense that you shall make according to its composition, you shall not make for yourselves. It shall be for you holy to the Lord. Whoever makes any like it to use as perfume shall be cut off from his people.” (Exodus 30:34-38 ESV)
It is said that we remember smells more than we remember any other sense.
Perhaps that is why God instructed Moses, as an important part of formal worship, include an aspect of fragrance.
The fragrance (a pleasant adjective) of sweet spices, unfamiliar herbs, unusual minerals, was a way that the people of God could remember the worship, here on earth, of our infinite God.
Perhaps the long-lasting memory of those smells helped the worshippers remember God more than the other senses tended to help. Remembering the infinite is hard for us, so maybe God gave them special pleasant odors to strengthen their memory of Him.
My tradition does not include such activities, usually. But I do remember the smell of peppermints, given to children at the beginning of the sermon. I do remember the clean smell of freshly treated pews. I do remember perfumes regularly worn by some members, sitting by my family every Lord’s Day.
No, those things are not exactly what God commanded Moses.
But they are in the same room.
Our long lasting fragrances, however they might be attached to worship, seem to enable us to experience the infinity of God.