Daily Sacrifice, April 23 (40:16)
“And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt-offering”— Isaiah 40:16.
SIN is so terrible an affront to a holy God that no sacrifice, however great, which man could offer would ever avail to put it away.
Although the mountains of Lebanon became as a great altar, and all the cedars thereon were hewn down and piled up for one enormous fire, on which were sacrificed the vast herds and flocks that grazed upon the pastures of these wooded hills, yet all together they would not be sufficient to atone for one sin. Only the precious blood of Christ avails to make propitiation for our guilt and to justify us before God.
―William Wileman