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Walk In Love
“And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given Himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour” (Ephesians 5:2).
As God’s children, we are exhorted to walk in love, and, in the above verse, we have Christ set before us as the great and perfect example of this divine love. In Him we see the devotedness and intensity of love that gave Himself for others, and this devotedness goes up to God as a sweet-smelling sacrifice. Such love goes far beyond the demands of the Old Testament law which required that a man love his neighbor as himself. Christ did far more, for He gave Himself to God for us.
It is this same love that we are asked to imitate, a love that would lead us to sacrifice ourselves for our brethren. Such love will in its little measure, even as with the infinite love of Christ, go up as a sweet savor to God. The love that led the Philippian assembly to meet the necessities of the Apostle Paul had this very effect. That love was to God “an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God” (Philippians 4:18).
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