God's presence and fellowship all the day.

Whence its Power?

The answer to the first question is suggested by the phrase in the
book of Revelation which describes the Blood of Christ by the tender
expression, "the Blood of the Lamb."[footnote 7: Rev.7:14] Not the
Blood of the Warrior, but the Blood of the Lamb! In other words that
which gives the precious Blood its power with God for men is the
lamb-like disposition of the One who shed it and of which it is the
supreme expression. The title "the Lamb" so frequently given to the
Lord Jesus in Scripture is first of all descriptive of His work--that
of being a sacrifice for our sin. When a sinning Israelite wanted to
get right with God, it was the blood of a lamb (sometimes that of
goat) which had to be shed and sprinkled on the altar. Jesus is the
Divine fulfilment of all those lambs that men offered--the Lamb of
God that taketh away the sin of the world.[Footnoe 8:John 1:29] But
the title the Lamb has a deeper meaning. It describes His character.
He is the Lamb in that He is meek and lowly in heart,[footnote
9:Matt. 11:29] gentle and unresisting, and all the time surrendering
His own will to the Father's[footnote 10:John 6:38] for the blessing
and saving of men. Any one but the Lamb would have resented and
resisted the treatment men gave Him. But He, in obedience to the
Father[footnote 11:Phil. 2:8] and out of love for us, did neither.
Men did what they liked to Him and for our sakes He yielded all the
time. When He was reviled, He reviled not again. When He suffered, He
threatened not. No standing up for His rights, no hitting back, no
resentment, no complaining! How different from us! When the Father's
will and the malice of men pointed to dark Calvary, the Lamb meekly
bowed His head in willingness for that too. It was as the Lamb that
Isaiah saw Him, when he prophesied, "He is brought as a Lamb to the
slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He openeth
not His mouth."[footnote 12:Is. 53:7] The scourging, the scoffing,
the spitting, the hair plucked off from His cheeks, the weary last
march up the Hill, the nailing and the lifting up, the piercing of
His side and the flowing of His Blood--none of these things would
ever have been, had He not been the Lamb. And all that to pay the
price of my sin! So we see He is not merely the Lamb because He died
on the Cross, but He died upon the Cross because He is the Lamb.

Let us ever see this disposition