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Monday, May 21, 2007
16:05
by the blood of the lamb It was just yesterday morning in church during the 11am service when we sang the all humbling "King of Kings". We reached the line where it sings "Who bought the nations' ransomed souls, brought this sinner near to your throne", and suddenly I imagined this scene which would come out well for a soap powder advertisement. Shelves of dirty little white hankies lined up along the wall, with each hankie sort of bobbed up in the centre (like a picture of a cute little ghost little kids draw), and there was this huge clean white hankie looking just about the same just going around and hugging each little hankie on the shelf and making them all clean again! There was probably a washing machine in the background with some soap powder box too! It looked a lot cuter in my imagination than what I am typing, but it was the image that was portrayed when I heard that line - as to how close God had brought the wretch like me close to His throne. At the same time, I thought about how it wasn't the dazzling white soap powder which had cleansed each and everyone of us, but the blood of the lamb that was shed on that cross. And it struck me quite hard. As a medic, one knows that blood is something you should try never contaminate to yourself with, that you should always protect yourself from other people's bodily fluids. So for someone in this profession, being "washed clean by blood" is something incomprehensible. You know logically can't wash yourself clean with someone elses' blood let alone "drench your sins in it" to be washed away. Yet, it is what has happened those many years ago on that old rugged cross. The symbolic shedding of one man's blood for the lives and sins of many others even until today, that is why that big clean hankie could go around hugging those little dirty hankies clean. It is not about logic, but about the love. The sacrifice. The humility. His love. Yes, it is only by the blood of the lamb. That I can once again come freely to the throne of God even though I am not worthy of it. "For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect." - 1 Peter 1:18-19 |