God's Seeking Love

We are now following the Hebrew children who are in dire need of God’s salvation from the bondage of slavery under a vicious enemy. How does God seek out His people to separate and save them from the death which is about to spread through the place where they are kept as slaves? God is making His children ready for Him so that when He sends His angel of death, they will be saved. Almighty Sovereign God has come down in His servant, an angel, to give life to His people and death to their enemies.

Is not our covenant keeping God keeping His covenant to Abram, alive? Remember, in the covenant God made with Abram, He told him this. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you. Genesis 12: 3. Aren’t these Hebrews sharing in this covenant, since they too are children of Abraham, just as Zacchaeus, who knew our Lord’s salvation? Is not our Lord seeking to ensure and secure the same for you and me and all who, by faith will believe and receive all? Our Lord is seeking to save all, for none of these enslaved people must be lost.  

Previously, mention was made of the Passover and reference was also made to blood in salvation. I bring to your remembrance some of what was stated earlier. Many a child of God, many a family of God, many a Church of God, needs to hear and know the truth of the Blood of Jesus which has been shed for all sinners. We must know the absolute trustworthiness of the Blood of the Lamb, the unchanging and unwavering commitment of Father God to His Son’s Blood and to every powerful, faithful and unswerving work of the Holy Spirit, in washing us with the Redeeming Blood of Jesus.

God has spoken and He will do all that He has promised, to save every single one of us who is lost, from present imprisonments. Needless to say, our response is paramount, for unless we obey our Lord’s commands, we will receive none of His promises.

The Lord God, in His salvation plan for the Hebrew people from their bondage in Egypt, gave them specific instructions which related to blood. Are there crucial, life-saving facts which we need to know or come to know more fully? We know that blood can save lives. This is what I mean. Recently, my young granddaughter was extremely emotional, sad, upset and confused even, when one of her close friends, a schoolmate died. The friend died for lack of blood. The sick young girl, imprisoned by a curable illness, could have lived, had she and her family accepted the blood the doctors said she needed, and the blood which was available to give to her. That set me thinking. I know that many of us know of similar instances and we too have been set thinking. In such circumstances, our minds take us to the Blood of Jesus, knowing that His Blood Saves. Indeed! His Blood Works. Here are some familiar words of Scripture. These are words which are spoken by God, through Moses, to the enslaved children of Israel. On the same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn of both people and animals, and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the LORD. The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt. Exodus 12: 12 – 13.

For the remainder of the week, we shall spend the time given to us, pondering, meditating and being further enlightened about the Blood of Jesus. We will be contrasting the shadow with the substance, the old with the new. What I mean is this. It is through the commands and assurances which God gave to Moses about the blood of animals, saving His people from His deadly, striking Hand through His messenger, that we will look upon Jesus, the Son and the absolute sufficiency of His Blood to save us from His Father’s judgment of wrath upon us.

The Bible says much about the Blood of Christ Jesus. Here is something that has been said about Jesus and His Blood in Hebrews 9: 11 – 14. 

But when Christ came as high priest of the good things that are already here, he went through the greater and more perfect tabernacle that is not made with human hands, that is to say, is not a part of this creation. He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves; but he entered the Most Holy Place once for all by his blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption. The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that they are outwardly clean. How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God.

The Lord still seeks us, to cleanse and save us through His Son’s life-giving Blood.