The Blood

"This is My blood of the new testament,
Which is shed for many,
For the remission of sins."
The life of the flesh is in the blood:
Certain it is, that impoverished blood,
Signifies tired or decrepid life;
Tainted blood implies corrupted life;
Ebbing blood means waning life;
And shed blood is life,
Poured forth from its source:
The blood is the life;
Therefore, there is nothing in man
More prescious than blood.

When God maketh inquisition for blood;
He remembereth Him: He forgetteth not
The cry of His annointed One.
Who by His own blood entered once
Into the Holy Place for us:
 Innocent blood; without spot or blemish;
Flowing from His thorn-girt head,
That it might atone for sins of thought;
From His hands and feet,
To expiate sins of deed and walk;
And from His side, that it might
Abye the sins of our affections.
He gave all, not as martyr, but as Savior.

The shedding of the blood of the Lamb,
Is an embodiment of the eternal love
In the very Being of the Father: freely given;
The essential condition for our redemption.
The Mystery of The Blood is a deep mystery:
In which that Blood is yet flowing,
In a perpetual cleansing and feeding;
An Expiatory offering for the ages.
Like a stream in the dessert,
Where it flows; life abounds.
There are three that bear witness,
The Spirit, the water, and the Blood;
And these three agree in One!