The Special of the Day… From the Orange Moon Cafe…
"The Trail of Blood"
God gave to the Lord Jesus Christ what we deserve so that He could give to us that which the Lord Jesus deserves.
"The Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all… we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God" (Isaiah 53:4; 6).
"God… hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in Heavenly places in Christ" (Ephesians 1:3).
If ever we wonder how a perfectly holy and righteous God could be so gracious and merciful to us, look no further and to none else than the Lord Jesus. "The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world" and the Lamb slain in time and space on the cross of Calvary makes possible every moment of blessedness born again believers will ever know (Revelation 13:8; I Corinthians 15:3). Our next breath flows to us on the flood tides of Christ's blood shed on our behalf. All joy blesses us because of His sorrow. Peace graces our hearts, based on the turmoil our Lord knew when abandoned by His Father and the Holy Spirit on the cross. "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" (Matthew 27:46). Eternal life becomes our portion when we believe because "He hath poured out His soul unto death" (Isaiah 53:12). "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights" because the Father poured out His wrath on the Son "made to be sin for us" (James 1:17; II Corinthians 5:21). The chronicle of grace given, based on judgment executed, could go on and on. It will as we remember that all joy forevermore comes to us by a sorrow forevermore will never fully reveal.
A trail of Blood stains the path
leading to the throne,
where God receives the trusting heart
approaching by His Son.
Without the cross, there could not be
this access freely known.
Without such sorrow, pain, and loss,
we'd have nowhere to go.
Yes, every prayer flows to the Throne
on flood tides of Christ's blood.
We come with grateful, trusting hope,
in wonder of such love…
A trail of Blood stains the path
leading to the Throne.
Our next breath, along with every blessing of eternity, will come to us as the freest of gifts from the heart of God. Such blessedness descends upon us because Someone else paid its price of agony, sorrow, forsakenness, and death. Yes, our Father will forever give to us that which the Lord Jesus deserves because on the cross He gave to Him what we deserve. We will know the gift and its cost much better in Heaven to come. For now, let us seek to know it as well as we can, and see the trail upon which we walk for what it is, the trail of Blood.
"He that spared not His Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?"
(Romans 8:32)
Weekly Memory Verse
"He that believeth on Me, as the Scripture hath said, out of His belly shall flow rivers of living water."
(John 7:38)
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