Nothing but the blood…

What can wash away my sin?

Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

What can make me whole again?

Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

Come to us, Lord.  You reward those who earnestly diligently seek You.  I wanna see Your face, I wanna know Your way.  Come to us Lord.  We want You more than this life.  More than our way, Your way is higher, Your thoughts are higher.

Oh, precious is the flow

That makes me white as snow.

No other fount I know,

Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

 

It’s the easiest thing in the world to go through the day with an unaffected, apathetic affectation towards the blood of Christ.  As westernized people, we voyage through this world with our minds swimming through a thick, muddled ocean of pre-conceived ideas and aspirations; we’re raised to live undisturbed lives.  But the truth of the Gospel is that to be affected by Christ is to be disturbed in every aspect of our lives.  Every thought we have from the moment we open our eyes in the morning to the time we close them at night would be disturbed by the gloriously transforming cross of Christ.

On a day like today, an Easter Sunday that’s sunny with a high of 80, I can’t help but be affected.  All day long people chant, “He is risen! He is risen, indeed!” and it gets to me.  It makes me think about the blood of Jesus that can wash away my sin, that can make me whole again.  Who is this God that would lay down His life for us, His friends, and turn our fallen world right side up by defeating death and rising again?  Surely, His ways are higher and His thoughts are higher than ours.  They are too great for me to imagine, yet they overtake my heart and pour out of my soul. 

Today, my life was affected by the precious flow of Christ’s blood, and it is my hope… มุ่งหวัง