Eastertide Week One: Remember the Cross
Day Three: The Necessity of Blood
Some of us cringe. Some feel nauseated. Doctors and nurses get used to its sight; still, its leaking spurs them to action. Even for professionals the sight of blood is unnerving. It signals something is wrong.
Blood is mentioned more than 400 times in the Old and New Testaments, signaling its importance. Moses said in the Book of Leviticus, “For the life of the flesh is in the blood” (Leviticus 17:11). Escaping blood means life is leaving. Yet oddly an old Christian hymn celebrates blood loss! In his hymn, “Nothing But the Blood of Jesus,” Robert Lowry wrote, “Oh precious is the flow.” A contradiction?
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