Christ's Blood Is There When We Need It!

When I donated blood a few years back, a nurse gave me a card to read while she withdrew blood from a vein in my arm. The card showed the following percentages of people who have different blood types:

O-Positive 37.4%
A-Positive 35.7%
A-Negative 6.3%
B-Negative 1.5%
AB-Negative 0.6%

The card also had this eye-catching statement which said: “The rarest blood type is the one that’s not there when you need it.” How true that statement is.

However, there’s another supply of blood that is one of a kind and always available to those who ask for it.

1 John 1:7 states: “The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.”

It was the death of Christ — the shedding of His blood, that satisfied the demand of a holy God as payment for our sins (Hebrews 9:12,22). So whenever a believer cries out to God in repentance for his sins and asks for forgiveness, his sins are completely forgiven.

Beloved, let us be grateful that Jesus was willing to die on the cross, giving His life-saving blood for us, so that forgiveness might be available when we need it. What a wonderful blessing we have “in Christ” (Ephesians 1:3,7; Colossians 1:12-14).

—Mike Riley, Gospel Snippets