http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%204:3-30&version=NLTYou've heard the songs.
"Oh the blood of Jesus..."
I've been thinking a lot about blood lately. The most precious blood in history is that of our Lord Jesus. I imagined today what his childhood was like. Did He ever fall and scrape his knee? Did He get cut, or perhaps bitten by a mosquito? Being fully God, He may have walked around with a sort of charmed life, perhaps. But I don't think that's the case. Why?
He asked for a drink of water. The woman at the well (John 4:3-30) was surprised by this. I don't know if she gave Him that drink or not, as they seem to have gotten caught up in conversation after His initial request. That's not the point. He asked her, a woman who had been married 5 times, and was living with a guy she wasn't married to, to give Him a drink of water.
What happens to water when it enters our body? Without getting technical (if you're into that sort of thing, look up
hematopoiesis, the constituents of plasma, hypovolemia, and dehydration), it is easy to see that we manufacture blood, and that it is really wet stuff. Just look at Red Cross donors; they re-make the blood they give over time. That fluid comes from somewhere.
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http://kidshealth.org/kid/talk/qa/blood.htmlWe focus so much on taking in our Lord; as with communion, being an expression of His desire that we take into ourselves His body and His blood... You are what you eat, they say. But I've been thinking a lot about what Jesus took into His body, what made up His blood. Every glass of wine or water, every bit of moisture in every fig or grape, every drop of fluid from Mary's milk to the Samaritan well water... He took these in. Some of that became His plasma, His cells...
What are the ingredients to the most precious gift in the world? Where did they come from?
Think.
.:3