Bedside Watchman -- THE DAILY INCENSE

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February 19th -- Exodus 30

THE DAILY INCENSE

SO with the incense, which is "the prayer of saints" (Revelation 5:8; 8:4). It is a daily obligation: a daily benefit -- a pleasure of God and an advantage to His people. I have known men argue against its necessity. They say, "God knows, without being told". This is true, but is not a good reason for the neglect of prayer, in view of the great help it is to us in gendering the habit of expansion of mind towards God, in view of the pleasure it affords to God, and in view of its inculcation by this Mosaic lesson. "The Lord taketh not pleasure in fools". "He taketh pleasure in the righteous". "The prayer of the righteous is his delight". All these things are testified; and it was shown in unmistakable parable when the high priest every morning put sweet-smelling incense in his censer on the fire taken from the altar, and waved his censer before the Lord in the holy place.

ROBERT ROBERTS, The Law of Moses, page 193