I just want to share this revelation I had during a blood donation experience that took place about a year ago.
After donating blood, I realised it all makes sense. The blood I have given would give dying person a chance to live. If there is no blood donation, operations, whether major or minor would cease to exist. People who are in need of the operations would die as a result without blood donations.
Blood must be given for a critically ill/ sick/ injured person to live again. But the blood donated must be disease free, pure and untainted. And when I look at the gospel, I realised how much it parallels this idea:
Jesus’s blood is the only blood that can save because he is pure and without blemish, and His blood that was shed on that cross gives us a chance to live again when we were all tainted and fallen because of one man’s sin (Adam).
“For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.” — Romans 5:19
This world is ill spiritually. The worse the illness, the more that person is in need of blood; the greater the debt of sin, the more the person is in need of the grace of Jesus’s blood. We take the holy communion to remind ourselves as Christians that the victory is claimed through the blood of Christ and therefore we are no longer ‘ill’, and now without blemish. Above all, the faith in the gospel, that Jesus shed his blood for the forgiveness of sins, has made us ALIVE in Christ!
Therefore, let us remind ourselves of this grace that was administered to us through Christ, and not by anything we have done but through faith, so that we may approach God with freedom and confidence (Ephesians 3:12) , pure and blameless:
“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast.” — Ephesians 2:8-9
Hope this encourages you! God bless!
❤ Eunice
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