And Aaron took as Moses commanded and ran into the midst of the congregation… – Numbers 16:47
Aaron as a lover of the people of Israel deserves much commendation, from the fact that it is expressly said, he ran into the host. I am not just now sure about Aaron’s age, but being older than Moses, who must have been at this time about ninety years of age, Aaron must have been more than a hundred, and probably, a hundred and twenty or more.
It is no little thing to say that such a man, clad no doubt in his priestly robes, ran, and that for a people who had never shown any activity to do him service, but much zeal in opposing his authority. That little fact of his running is highly significant, for it shows the greatness and swiftness of the divine impulse of love that was within.
Ah! and was it not so with Christ? Did He not haste to be our Savior? Were not His delights with the sons of men? Did He not often say, “I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straitened till it be accomplished.” His dying for us was not a thing which He dreaded. “With desire have I desired to eat this passover.”
He had panted for the moment when He should redeem His people. He had looked forward through eternity for that hour when He should glorify His Father, and His Father might glorify Him. He came voluntarily, bound by no constraint, except His own covenant engagements, and He cheerfully and joyfully laid down His life—a life which no man could take from Him, but which He laid down of Himself. ~ C.H. Spurgeon
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