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Nothing But The Blood




There are hymns and songs that convey the essence of Christian faith. One of them is a powerful old hymn about the blood of Jesus,, how only He can wash us clean if our sin, unrighteousness, and disobedience. Only Christ and His blood can rescue  us from our folly and failings, In Him alone is the solace and salavation of our souls:



There is nothing that can make us right with God, reconcile us to Him or save us from eternal doom than Jesus and His blood. Our spiritual pride can make us believe from time to time that we are Holy by right living but sooner or later we crumble by the secret failings that like a spear knock us off the golden horse of hubris. We find freedom as Christians when we finally embrace the fact that only Jesus Christ can save us and only His blood makes us clean. Often we must stay soaked in this fundamental truth of the faith because our flesh wants to deceive us into believing we can achieve holiness and freedom from our sinful nature by actions and works of merit. We may play perfecti for a while but in Istanbul this pseudo-holiness will crumble and we will find ourselves wallowing in the pig stye and acutely award of our folly. Then in the murky waters of our weakness we again catch sight of Jesus Christ and His sacrifice on the cross, tending us it is all paid for in full (Romans, whole book). We then rise in the Blood of Christ and if we would stay cloaked in Him our Savior, “Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ (Put on Jesus NKJV), and make no provision for the desires of the flesh,” (Romans 13:14), and “For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.” (Galatians 3:27) and put off pride in our own piety, we would experience not only contentment in Christ our redeemer, but end the cycle of rising in Hubris the horse and being kicked down off it again. Let us be content with Jesus Christ and His blood, let us cloak ourselves in Christ and garments sprinkled with His blood and say to our insecurity and desire to be perfect, “It is finished,” (John 19:30) God who is perfect Has made the perfect sacrifice for me and His perfect blood showers me and makes me clean (and perfect). Amen. 











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