Christ's Perfect Offering for us

"Christ hath given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God, for a sweet-smelling savour." -Ephesians 5:2 [KJV]

If, when Noah offered by faith his sacrifice at the coming forth from the ark, the Lord smelled a sweet savour in it, because both the ark and sacrifice were a type of His dear Son, how fragrant and acceptable must have been the substance, when Jesus offered Himself without spot to God? Behold Him by faith, my soul, in that hour, in the full incense of His own merit, the censer of His own offering, and the golden altar of His own nature. And while God, even the everlasting Father, accepts Jesus as thy Surety, in the fragrancy of His offering, wilt thou not by faith so apprehend the sweet influence of His person, work, and righteousness, as to rejoice before God in the sure acceptance of thyself and all thy poor offerings in the Beloved?  

Oh let a throne of grace be a daily, hourly, testimony for thee, that all thy approaches here are under the incense and intercession of Jesus; and all thine hopes and expectations of glory hereafter, are all founded in Him and His finished salvation. Yes, Thou Lamb of God! let all witness for me, that Thou and Thou alone, art the Lord my righteousness, and that I seek salvation in no other; most perfectly assured from Thine own Spirit's teaching, that there is no other name under heaven, given among men, whereby we must be saved. Hallelujah. 

-preacher Robert Hawker (1753-1827 A.D.)

November 13th, THE POOR MAN'S MORNING PORTION   


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