Giving Blood

Friday night, Vange and I gave blood in honor of of 1st grade girl who has leukemia. It is a planned event.... we signed up for this activity.

It was a very small, and basically painless "sacrifice" to be a real help to someone else. As I was sitting there thinking about losing blood, it made me wonder why Jesus would "sign up" to sacrifice for me. There is a phrase that says "Jesus shed His blood for us." What that really means is he was beaten, stabbed, whipped, and had spikes hammered through His hands and feet onto a wooden cross for us. He literally bled for us. Not only was there a physical element to His sacrifice, but more importantly, through a supernatural, God thing, Jesus "paid the price" for everything I will ever do that offends God. There is a scripture (Isaiah 53:5) that says "But it was our sins that did that to him, that ripped and tore and crushed him - our sins! He took the punishment, and that made us whole. Through his bruises we get healed." There is healing for the brokeness in our lives; physical, emotional, relational, financial, vocational..... WOW! That is some potent, special blood.

Live loud, live intentionally, and love God / Family / and Friends with every word and every action.