“I see a crimson stream of blood, that flows
from Calvary…”
“There is power, power wonder working power
in the blood, of the Lamb…”
“What can wash away my sins? Nothing but the
blood of Jesus.”
We
write hymns and song about it and we sing about it in church. We have been taught the importance of the
shedding of the blood, thru out the Bible. The necessity of the
spotless sacrifice that would make the blood pure and met the demands of a
perfect sacrifice. We learn that in Leviticus 17:11
(KJV)“For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.”
So much has been taught on the blood of Jesus Christ, it has
become so common to most Christians but I like to present one more
consideration. A scientific spin on the
blood of Jesus; the component if we were to look at them under a “spiritual
microscope”. With a help of my High
School Biology students, we considered what each component of the blood might
represent.
There are four things that our blood contains; Plasma, Red
Blood Cells, White Blood Cells and Platelets.
The blood affects every part of the body, without it, great damage can
happen to the area cut off from this life giving flow. Even death can happen at
the loss of blood. We must have blood apart
of every aspect of our lives so that we can have life.
55% of the blood content is Plasma; the plasma is 90% water,
10% nutrients. This balance helps us to
maintain proper blood pressure. The
nutrients help to regulate the water in the blood, help protect and assist the
White Blood Cells in attacking foreign objects.
The plasma of Jesus is given to us in the form of Water Baptism in his
name. It also in the form of Spiritual
Baptism; the Holy Ghost. It helps maintain a proper Christian Life and
balancing our lives to the Word of God.
Red Blood Cells is a master of design for doing its job of
carrying oxygen. With the help of
special iron contained blood proteins called hemoglobin, red blood cells can bind easily to oxygen. As oxygen
is transferred though out the body, the red blood cells will drop off oxygen;
then picks up carbon dioxide that is no longer useful to the body. The Red Blood cells of Jesus’ Blood will do
the same; bring us new life to every part of us. Removing the old and bad, which if not
removed can cause damage and even death.
White Blood Cells are called the Solider Cells, they are
design to fight. Their purpose to fight
off foreign objects and they will die to protect their home. Jesus’ white blood cells do the same things
in our lives. Sin is a foreign object;
God did not originally design sin to be in our lives. We have no way of fighting or destroying sin,
only the white blood cells of Jesus could do this.
The platelets’ job is to patrol the blood vessels for
leaks. These tiny disk-shaped cell
fragments serve as the patch kits. They
are also first to assist in blood clotting.
When we are broken in our lives, damage by sin or harmed by this world,
Jesus’ platelets come into our lives and begin to repair us. They will clot out things that are harmful to
us and keep us from losing life.
Last of all we think that Jesus had to of had O- Blood
type. O- Blood type is called the “Universal
Blood Donor”, this is because O- Blood lacks antigens that
other blood types contain. If Jesus
contained these antibodies and we received a “blood transfusion” from Him, our
body would not accept it and considered foreign and be destroyed. This would not help us. The blood of Jesus would have to be free from
these “tags” and accepted by all.
Without the blood of Jesus and all its components, we will
die in sin. We must ask for a “blood
transfusion” in order to live. Because
only though Jesus’ blood can we remove sin from our lives. Only though Jesus’ blood could we be restored
and become new. Only though Jesus’ blood
can we receive life. We might never sing
songs about Jesus’ platelets or talk about the power in His white blood cells
or poetically write about seeing a crimson stream of the red blood cells
flowing from Calvary. But when we do sing about the blood, you
might have a different prospective of what the blood of Jesus might be doing in
your lives.
A Fellow Follower & Science Teacher
Jacqueline Suzanne
With the help of my students, Hannah, Andrew and Paul
Graham, Keith & Parker, Graham. Biology God's Living Creation Third Edition. Pensacola, FL: A Beka Book Science Series, 2007. USA
