Seeing Red: Nothing But the Blood


For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
Matthew 26:28


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Though it was his desire to influence people for Christ through his preaching ministry, it is Robert Lowry's ministry as a hymn writer that has kept his memory alive since his death in 1899. He composed around five hundred Gospel hymns during his years of ministry, none better known than "Nothing But the Blood." The first stanza of this hymn is sung as energetically today as when he wrote it in 1876: "What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. What can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood of Jesus."

Since innocent animals were first sacrificed as a substitute for guilty human beings, blood has been the means of atonement. Why blood? Because blood "is the life of all flesh. Its blood sustains its life" (Leviticus 17:13-14). So for one life to be taken in place of another, blood must be shed. "Without shedding of blood there is no remission" of sin (Hebrews 9:22).

Praise God today that His own Son's blood was sufficient to cover the sins of the whole world (1 John 2:2). And make sure your faith is in "nothing but the blood of Jesus."

I hear the words of love, I gaze upon the blood, I see the mighty sacrifice, and I have peace with God.
Horatius Bonar