The Only Innocent Blood

November 12

There are myriad paths to destruction, but there is only one way to Heaven and that one way is Jesus. We have heard of the fervency of the religious pilgrim who is willing to crawl on his knees to the shrine of one of his many ‘gods,’ dragging his forehead along the ground to reach the object of his worship.

We know too well of the zealot who is willing to strap explosives to his body in order to kill and maim those unfortunate individuals whose beliefs do not embrace his own. In his misguided fervor, he sacrifices himself to the cause he believes in, confident he will find temporal pleasures in heaven for doing so.

We know of the sacrifices animists make to their false gods—casting their own children to crocodiles in order to satisfy the demands of the bloodthirsty deity they serve. We know the author of these cruel and godless practices is not the One who inhabits eternity but the evil entity who comes to “steal, kill and destroy,” John 10:10.

We stand aghast at the demonic ideas that misguided souls are willing to impose upon those who do not share their belief system, that require the shedding of blood—their own and that of others. They affirm that for man in general to live, some man must bleed and die.

In just one belief system is it God who dies so man may live. Only JESUS’ blood can cover our sin. A pure and holy sacrifice was required to bridge the gulf between God and His fallen creation, and God Himself supplied that sacrifice.

Our Triune God spoke of the infallibility of His plan in Isaiah 45:18-19, where He said, “I am the Lord and there is no other…I, the Lord, speak truthfully. I say what is right.” No other plan works. No other god saves.

Only the plan set forth in the Throne Room of Heaven tells of “…the Lamb slain from the foundation of the earth,” Revelation 13:8. Only that matchless plan can supply the Lord’s just requirement that the penalty for sin be paid with innocent blood, and the only innocent blood is the blood of Jesus.