Blood Tests

This morning I had labs done.  Once a month (sometimes more), the lab tech takes a gallon of blood and runs it through a bunch of tests to see if my body is doing what it should.  I get numbers back that tell me how my body is interacting with my new kidney.  Blood tests are essential to good health because blood never lies.  It always tells the truth about what is happening with every organ in your body.  Blood is a fascinating fluid.  It gives life, it gives truth and it gives hope. 

I've had a lot of time to think about blood.  When I was in dialysis, I spent hours watching blood leave my body through a tube, route through a dialysis machine to be cleaned, and flow back into my body through another tube.  I am always amazed at all the things blood carries in its stream.  It delievers nutrients and energy to the cells and removes toxic waste from the cells. 

Blood is the cornerstone of our faith.  It gives life, it gives truth and it gives hope.  In the Old Testament, the blood of animals was sacrificed for forgiveness of sin.  In the New Testament, Jesus became the blood sacrifice for our forgiveness of sin. It took His blood to clean the toxic waste of sin in my blood so that I could have life, truth and hope.   As long as Jesus' blood is flowing through my veins, I have nothing to fear.

One of my favorite hymns growing up went like this: 

"What can wash away my sin, nothing but the blood of Jesus.  What can make me whole again, nothing but the blood of Jesus.  O precious is that flow, that makes me white as snow, no other fount I know, nothing but the blood of Jesus."

If I give you a blood test right now, what truth would your blood reveal?  

Comments

[Pace Hartfield]

great post!

[Brian Capps]

Thats a great post!