The Sweet Fragrance of Christ to God

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The ashes of the burnt offering had to be carefully gathered up and carried to a clean place. So precious was the burnt offering to God that the fire was never allowed to go out; it was to burn all night (Lev. 6:99Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt offering: It is the burnt offering, because of the burning upon the altar all night unto the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be burning in it. (Leviticus 6:9)).
It is night in this world. Christ, its true light, has been rejected, and the world remains in darkness. During His absence, it is the privilege of each believer to enter into the preciousness of Christ to God, to contemplate Him as giving Himself “an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savor,” and to share the Father’s delight in the sweet fragrance of that blessed One who said, “Therefore doth My Father love Me, because I lay down My life, that I might take it again” (John 10:1717Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. (John 10:17)). No wonder that this fire was never to go out, but that each day fresh wood was placed on the altar, telling of the ceaseless, changeless delight of heaven in Jesus.
J. T. Mawson