Blood Work

“On the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying: ‘To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates.’” (Genesis 15:18)

In the 2002 Clint Eastwood movie Blood Work, a retired FBI profiler tracks down the killer of his heart’s donor when his own blood analyses reveal clues about a serial killer. Long before Clint Eastwood was Unforgiven, God has already finished His blood work for us. The message from the Bible is God loves us so much that He gave, and He gave, and gave, and indeed for thousands of years, God has been revealing His love into our hearts.

God has given us promises of blessing, deliverance, favor, increase, restoration and protection in His Word, but He’s always encountered doubting Thomases who just couldn’t believe those promises were true. Abraham (formerly known as Abram) wasn’t used to the idea of a God who gives because he was a worshiper of the moon in Babylon, and the moon never did anything for him. Then he had a close encounter with God and the first thing God wanted to do was give. God’s promises so shocked and awed Abram that he asked, “LORD God, how shall I know that I will inherit it?” (Genesis 15:8) and God answered by cutting a blood covenant with him.

That blood covenant settled any doubt Abram could ever have about God’s love and loyalty because once blood had been shed in the Eastern tradition, he knew God really meant what He said. God cut an even better blood covenant with us than He did for Abram, because He sacrificed His own Son Jesus (John 3:16) on the cross to do it and not just the blood of animals. Jesus’ broken body with the stripes on His back and precious Blood have become the Proof of Life, the proof of God’s everlasting love for us.

Through Holy Communion of the bread and wine, God has urged us to remember them again and again so that when our faith in His promises begins to waver, we might have a strong consolation (Hebrews 6:18). Believe and receive the love of God by meditating on the covenant He’s made as we study His Word day and night. Bring the bread and the cup, and take Communion before God thinking about the body and blood of Jesus that enables us to be a covenant member of the royal family of God. The blood work has already been done when Jesus said “it is finished”, so we’ll never have to doubt the loving promises in His Word ever again.
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