It's been a while. Easter has got my head spinning because I'm realizing that Jesus really allowed Himself to be TORTURED and to DIE for sins He never committed. He WILLINGLY chose the path of the cross, and for what?
For who might be a better way of thinking about everything. What kind of God would allow His only son to suffer so greatly? What might God have thought or felt at that time? Why didn't God Almighty simply reset the whole sin/death thing and give us a full pardon? Why does it take blood to wash away sin?
A quick look at Genesis Chapter 3 tells us God's original intentions for our relationship: perfect communion and harmony. It was our choice to look away from God and to assume that our wants surpassed God's commands that messed everything up. But still, why blood?
Here are some quick blood facts:
- Blood is the fluid that circulates in a person's heart, arteries, capillaries and veins
- Blood carries nourishment and oxygen to all parts of the body
- Blood takes waste products from all parts of the body.
- Blood carries the antibodies that protect our bodies from disease and infection
- Blood is a connective tissue
Now, I won't get to crazy with this, but let it be known that blood is truly the life force of the physical body. Without blood, our bodies would become so polluted that we would kill ourselves by our own waste products. Blood = Life, Life = Blood. The issue then becomes, how pure is our blood. I don't mean "racially" or genetically, but purity wise. How many sicknesses, infections, and microscopic pathogens do we carry in our blood stream from day to day?
Sin is like having a body with infected blood flowing through it. Sin is lethal. In order to live, we must have a blood transfusion. Jesus' blood is pure, life giving, strong, untainted, healthy. By shedding His blood, we are able to allow His life into our own. His good blood begins to reproduce within us and make us whole. His blood brings in the Holiness of the Father, and takes out the infection of our sin-cursed humanity.
It's a slow process, but if we continue to allow His purity into our Spiritual veins, and avoid going back to the diseased, putrid, infected injections of Sin, then there's really help for us all.
God could not have enjoyed watching His only son's torture, humiliation, and murder, but He loved us enough to allow it so that we could be pure enough to relate to Him again.
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