Thursday, November 15, 2018

when blood cries out


Today in the One Year Bible, we read from Hebrews 12:14-29. Paul tells us that Jesus's blood speaks forgiveness in the same kind of way that Abel's blood cried out for vengeance. It's interesting how the Bible speaks of blood crying out. Of blood speaking. .Of blood being life. Of course we know that our lives are impossible without it. That the very oxygen our brains need to live is carried to the brain through our blood. Jesus's blood cries out forgive them, for they know not what they do. Abel's blood cries out for justice.

What does your blood ask for?

God, thanks for teaching us the mystical nature of blood.