There is Unity in the Blood.

     Have you ever wondered why when you have a pain in one part of your body everything else seems to hurt?  Have you ever wondered why an infection in the tonsils, a finger, or toe can seem to cause high fevers, chills, body aches, and so much discomfort it lands you in bed?  Quite simply the body is connected in so many ways.  Nerve pathways, skin, muscles, tendons, and connective tissues.  Nothing however connects the body and makes it unified like the blood.  The blood connects the beating heart, the liver, the lungs, the bone marrow, the kidneys, and so much more.  Likewise the blood of Jesus connects the church (the body of Christ) together.  When one part of the body hurts the whole is affected.  Similarly, without the blood of Christ, we have no connection with God, our Heavenly Father.  It is that ever flowing substance that carries the life giving nutrients to the life of mankind.  "...that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been made near by the blood of Christ.  For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of division between us, having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace, and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity" Eph 2:12-15.  It is the Blood of Christ that unites...All Life is in the Blood.

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