Today’s devotion comes from Exodus 29:15-18.
“You shall also take the one ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram; and you shall slaughter the ram and shall take its blood and sprinkle it around on the altar. Then you shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its entrails and its legs, and put them with its pieces and its head. You shall offer up in smoke the whole ram on the altar; it is a burnt offering to the LORD: it is a soothing aroma, an offering by fire to the LORD.” Exodus 29:15-18.
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God’s provision of the ram as a burnt offering to the LORD as a soothing aroma to the LORD points us to Christ Who “… gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.” Ephesians 5:2.
God also “manifests through us the sweet aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place. For we are a fragrance of Christ”.
“But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and manifests through us the sweet aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place. For we are a fragrance of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing; to the one an aroma from death to death, to the other an aroma from life to life. And who is adequate for these things? For we are not like many, peddling the word of God, but as from sincerity, but as from God, we speak in Christ in the sight of God.” 2 Corinthians 2:14-17.
God draws His chosen people to Christ. “No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day.” John 6:44.
In the concluding Scripture, we see how Christ is “a pleasing fragrance” to His bride, the Church, God’s chosen people.
“The Song of Songs, which is Solomon’s.
2 “May he kiss me with the kisses of his mouth!
For your love is better than wine.
3 “Your oils have a pleasing fragrance,
Your name is like purified oil;
Therefore the maidens love you.
4 “Draw me after you and let us run together!
The king has brought me into his chambers.”
“We will rejoice in you and be glad;
We will extol your love more than wine.
Rightly do they love you.” Song of Solomon 1:1-4.
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