Today is Thursday, November 6th, 2003; Karen's Korner #169

New blood

 

Whenever the blood drive comes to Clarion and I can work it into our schedule, I sign up as a potential donor. One of the first things to which anyone is subjected is a battery of questions: Where have I traveled? What about my general health? What kinds of relationships have I been involved with in the past certain amount of time?

 

Pretty personal questions, if you ask me. The blood drive technicians want to make sure blood donors have the quality of blood to give to someone who needs it. Blood exchanges are pretty touchy and technical things.

 

If we take "good" blood and add it to someone who has AIDS, the person will still have the disease and will have infected blood.

 

If we have "good" blood and someone gives us his/her blood which is HIV infected, oh, great -- now we have "bad" blood, too. How can we cure much stuff when it looks like there isn't much "good" blood hanging around?

 

Same thing happens in our spiritual world. Babies are born with a less-than-perfect nature; a human nature - they get it from their parents! And then they get more infected with time - from the environment in which they live. Pretty soon we have full blown diseases with infections everywhere. There aren't any cures unless we get transfusions. We need some "good" blood? Where are we going to look?

 

Only one donor - Jesus! He can answer "yes" to all the questions: "are you a suitable candidate to donate blood to this person?" His blood can replace ours. This blood exchange is permanent and eternal.

 

Do you want "old" blood or "new"? "Bad" blood or "good"?

 

All we have to do is ask for the transfusion!


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