Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Evening Devotional For Saturday March 28, 2020 |
Evening Time: 3:04 PM PST
"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.
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