THE STORY OF JESUS: Psalm 79
“They have poured out blood like water all around Jerusalem.” (Psalm 79:3)
Blood represents the preciousness of life – all over the ground.
Every murder is an echo of Abel’s blood, crying out for justice (Genesis 4:10).
This Psalm was written by a Jew, but it also applies to all people.
Our world is filled with blood – like water – precious life wasted!
Is it because of God’s anger (v.5), or is it what causes God’s anger?
God’s response is to step into the bloodshed and overcome it with love.
The blood of Jesus mingles with our blood in Jerusalem (John 19:34).
His blood cries a better word than Abel’s – justice and mercy (Hebrews 12:24)!
We’ve become desensitized to blood – in the news, in computer games.
We ignore appeals for blood donations — too busy shopping or watching TV.
We fight over communion juice, but say little about violence and death.
As Jesus followers, we should feel the preciousness of every life.
Jesus mingled His blood with the billions of victims through history.
He’s asking us to join our blood with His in crying out for justice and mercy!
What do you sense the Lord saying to you?
PRAYER
Lord, forgive us for drinking Your blood in communion for ourselves, but ignoring Your blood in the millions who suffer and die every day.
Jesus follower
trying to find His way
Take it to the Lord in prayer.
The wrongs, the sins, the destructions – take it all to the Lord in prayer.
In this world today, we too need to see the hand of God. He speaks.
Do I see Him?
Do I hear Him?
Those around me read me and they need to see Christ Jesus living in me.
Daily I need to come before You.
Daily I need to praise You.
Daily I need to pray for Your presence to be seen in the affairs of this world.
LightShine.
Praise Him today and forevermore.
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy.
O, Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love; For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; it is in dying that we are born again to eternal life.