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"I will accept you with your sweet savour." -
Ezekiel 20:41
The merits of our great Redeemer are as sweet savour to the Most High. Whether
we speak of the active or passive righteousness of Christ, there is an equal
fragrance. There was a sweet savour in his active life by which he honoured the
law of God, and made every precept to glitter like a precious jewel in the pure
setting of his own person. Such, too, was his passive obedience, when he endured
with unmurmuring submission, hunger and thirst, cold and nakedness, and at
length sweat great drops of blood in Gethsemane, gave his back to the smiters,
and his cheeks to them that plucked out the hair, and was fastened to the cruel
wood, that he might suffer the wrath of God in our behalf. These two things are
sweet before the Most High; and for the sake of his doing and his dying, his
substitutionary sufferings and his vicarious obedience, the Lord our God accepts
us. What a preciousness must there be in him to overcome our want of
preciousness! What a sweet savour to put away our ill savour! What a cleansing
power in his blood to take away sin such as ours! and what glory in his
righteousness to make such unacceptable creatures to be accepted in the Beloved!
Mark, believer, how sure and unchanging must be our acceptance, since it is in
him! Take care that you never doubt your acceptance in Jesus. You cannot be
accepted without Christ; but, when you have received his merit, you cannot be
unaccepted. Notwithstanding all your doubts, and fears, and sins, Jehovah's
gracious eye never looks upon you in anger; though he sees sin in you, in
yourself, yet when he looks at you through Christ, he sees no sin. You are
always accepted in Christ, are always blessed and dear to the Father's heart.
Therefore lift up a song, and as you see the smoking incense of the merit of the
Saviour coming up, this evening, before the sapphire throne, let the incense of
your praise go up also.
See Also:
Daily Devotional: Today With Jesus
Daily Devotional: My Utmost for His Highest
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