I will accept you with your sweet savor.
Ezekiel 20:41
sweet savor to the Most High.
Whether we speak of the active or passive
righteousness of Christ,
there is an equal fragrance.
There was a sweet savor in His active life
by which He honored the law of God,
like a precious jewel in the pure setting of His own person.
Such, too, was His passive obedience,
when He endured with unmurmuring submission,
hunger and thirst, cold and nakedness,
and at length sweat great drops of blood in Gethsemane,
gave His back to the smiters, and His cheeks to them that plucked out the hair, and was fastened to the cruel wood, that He might suffer the wrath of God in our behalf.
These two things are sweet before the Most High;
and for the sake of His doing and His dying,
and His vicarious obedience,
the Lord our God accepts us.
Therefore lift up a song,
and as you see the smoking incense of the merit of the Savior coming up,
this evening, before the sapphire throne,
let the incense of your praise go up also."
Charles Spurgeon