Notes on the Book of LeviticusMackintosh, Charles Henry
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Notes on the Book of Leviticus
Mackintosh, Charles Henry
Bible. Leviticus -- Commentaries
There are few things in which we exhibit more failure than in
maintaining vigorous communion with the perfect manhood of the Lord
Jesus Christ. Hence it is that we suffer so much from vacancy,
barrenness, restlessness, and wandering. Did we but enter with a more
artless faith into the truth that there is a real Man at the right
hand of the Majesty in the heavens--One whose sympathy is perfect,
whose love is fathomless, whose power is omnipotent, whose wisdom is
infinite, whose resources are exhaustless, whose riches are
unsearchable, whose ear is open to our every breathing, whose hand is
open to our every need, whose heart is full of unspeakable love and
tenderness towards us--how much more happy and elevated we should be,
and how much more independent of creature streams, through what
channel soever they may flow! There is nothing the heart can crave
which we have not in Jesus. Does it long for genuine sympathy? Where
can it find it, save in Him who could mingle His tears with those of
the bereaved sisters of Bethany? Does it desire the enjoyment of
sincere affection? It can only find it in that heart which told forth
its love in drops of blood. Does it seek the protection of real power?
It has but to look to Him who made the world. Does it feel the need of
unerring wisdom to guide? Let it betake itself to Him who is wisdom
personified, and "who of God is made unto us wisdom." In one word, we
have all in Christ. The divine mind and the divine affections have
found a perfect object in "the Man Christ Jesus;" and surely, if there
is that in the Person of Christ which can perfectly satisfy God, there
is that which ought to satisfy us, and which will satisfy us in
proportion as, by the grace of the Holy Ghost, we walk in communion
with God.
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