Why does it make us queasy to speak about blood?  Why are Hollywood, the news and those pent on violence dedicated to desensitizing the globe to the sight of its crimson majesty?  What are we without it, lifeless?  What are we because of it, forgiven, cleansed, family, separated from most mammalia by its warmth.  That is why Jesus gave His blood for us and promised even the wicked, salvation if they should depend upon  His sanguine sacrifice.  There is no greater gift a man can give then to shed his blood for humanity.  This is the God we serve.  A being so powerful that He could voluntarily make Himself susceptible to sin and death, just to fulfill something that could not have otherwise been accomplished, bringing man back into His presence.  How can God die?  Out of His Will to spill His own blood for humans.  Do not blame the Romans, the Jews, the arrogant or the weak.  For this was the Lord’s plan.

Do not be misguided in your pursuit of Glory.  There is nothing new under the sun as Solomon stated through the Holy Spirit’s guidance.  This includes any steps you or I might take to delay or defeat the enemy’s intention.  This has already been accomplished, completed, done.  satan and his armies are simply a corpse in its death throws after being administered the judgment to which they are headed, the Lord Jesus rebuke him and his followers.  This was fulfilled through the Awesome Blood of God being brought into this world as the antidote to sin and death.  One drop was capable of creating/destroying worlds, one milliliter worth a trillion stars.  A liquid so strong that it reaches back and forward through the span of time to make right what had been violated by rebellion.  A God so wonderful that instead of condemning everything, wiping the slate clean and remaking the universe, chose to give us the gifts of forgiveness, mercy, patience and Almighty Grace.

I cannot open my mind wide enough to begin to comprehend the breadth of this salvation, no wonder the angels remain in awe.  Did you ever stop to think that God “existed” for eternity before He even created satan and the fallen?  And that when he created these beings he knew exactly every step that they would ever take throughout their entire existence.  Yet He still offered them “free will” to choose right.  Do you begin to see the Love that our God possesses?  He creates things even when He knows that they will oppose Him, and He does it out of Love.  Humility is too weak a word.  Praise Him in all His infinite Love and Grace, in Jesus’ Name.  Amen.