Nothing But the Blood Of Jesus

Oh! precious is the flow

That makes me white as snow;

No other fount I know,

Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

(Nothing But the Blood, Robert Lowry | 1876)

The Blood. The precious blood of Jesus.

Too often as we go about our daily lives we begin to discount the true value of the Blood. We go to church and sing songs that talk about the blood like we sing along with songs on the radio. We sing along with the words on a screen, listen to a sermon, spend a few moments at an altar and walk out the door stuck in the same routine most churchgoers find themselves in.

When Jesus died His cruel death at Calvary, His death didn’t just purchase our salvation, but through it, we, as believers, can now experience redemption, forgiveness, justification, and sanctification. We now have access to the very throne room of God. No wonder we refer to as the precious blood of Jesus.

You see, I've walked where the blood so graciously was poured out. No longer can I merely stand and sing about Calvary and the shedding of His blood without something rapturing in my heart. Calvary isn't just a place in old school hymns that my grandparents sang but it's now a place where I've felt His love realer than before. There's something precious about Calvary but there's something even more precious about the blood that was poured out there at Calvary.

The blood is precious because of who He is. 

God's one and only son became a man. He's the one that left divinity to enter humanity. He left the perfection of Heaven to enter the sinfulness of Earth. He left perfect peace to enter human pain.

The blood is precious because of why He came. 

God allowed His son to come to earth that we may find abundant life (John 10:10). He came to die so that we might be able to live; what a love that would compel Him to come for you and me!

The blood is precious because of what it provides. 

Not only does His blood being us eternal life when we choose to accept Him but along with that comes healing through the 39 stripes for each and every disease we experience (Isaiah 53:5). It brings us freedom from sin (Revelation 1:5). The blood provides us with ability to overcome (Revelation 12:11)

I pray that there never comes a moment in life where I forget the true value of the blood oh Jesus. The purchase He made for you and me was the greatest purchase ever made and one to not be discounted.

It's the blood that gives me strength

From day to day,

It will never lose its power.

(The Blood Will Never Lose It's Power, Andrae Crouch | 1945)