Numbers 28:6 (ESV Strong's)
It is a regular burnt offering, which was ordained at Mount Sinai for a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the Lord.
God Desires a Pleasing Life
We should all worry about what we smell like. One quick search of the internet for how big the antiperspirant and/or deodorant market comes up with a figure between 70-90 BILLION dollars. That is a lot of focus on how we smell. We spend a lot of money to cover up our natural stink.
In the above text we have a passage about how God wants our offering to Him to smell “pleasing” to Him. We can’t put on some paste, cream, or spray to make our offerings to God smell better. We have a natural stink about us (sin) and that means we have to have something that changes our smell so that God smells a pleasing aroma to Him. That phrase, “pleasing aroma,” appears almost 20 times in this book of Numbers. God is concerned that we offer sacrifices to Him that are pleasing. What does that look like? Israel failed in this assignment, even thought God told them over and over. They became very “form” in their approach and not “humble” in their approach. Note:
Psalms 51:15-17 (ESV Strong's)
O Lord, open my lips,
and my mouth will declare your praise.
For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it;
you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;
a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
God wants us to come to Him in Humility and in the power of the Spirit, based upon the work of Christ. That is a pleasing sacrifice to Him. When we come to Him in pride and in our own efforts, to make ourselves feel good, God is not pleased with our “sacrifice.”
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