Redemption; Through the Blood of Christ

Redemption; Through the Blood of Christ

“But one soldier thrust his lance into his side, and immediately blood and water flowed out.”  (Jn 19: 34).

Christ’s whole life is a mystery of redemption.  Redemption comes to us above all through the blood of his cross, but this mystery is at work throughout Christ’s entire life; in his Resurrection by which he justifies us.  (CCC 517).

Placing all of the victorious aspirations together that make-up our journey to heaven, we would find that these two blend together as one entity.

There is a unified desire within the Holy Trinity that became the path for mankind to discover the Way to Christ’s Heart In spite of his selfish one-sided quest.  Is it a deep search for God, as a  means to find acceptance by him using our own intuition?  No it isn’t.      

Man could never reach beyond his carnal desire to reach eternity through self-imposed actions that quickly falter without the essence of a Holy God who shows a patient essence that is his alone.  The error that each of us use is we need to earn our way to heaven which in the end will prove to be erroneous and without Christ’s blood to reach inside of each of us will become a disaster that there is no return from.  We cannot earn salvation!  

How, then, did the Incarnation of Christ achieve the road that opens in the direction of a divine entrance to God?  Was it the assumption of a human nature that made Jesus just like man, without sin?  Could it have been an acceptance that man so realistically holds onto?  Did we discover the Via Dolorosa that Jesus walked as many continued to mock the Son of God? 

Any one of them might fit a worldly attachment to anything worldly except the Passion of Christ.  It is here that we find there never was a human ideal that could stand between humanity and eternity as the way to eternal life without the Blood that poured out from the dead body of Jesus Christ after he overcame death and destroyed the existence of Satan’s last stand against God.

We may hear the adage that calling down the blood of Christ can efface many spiritual problems.  That brings a lot of truth to the needs that seem to overcome our human weaknesses unless we call on the blood of Christ to strengthen our faith continually.  This year, during Lent, let us ponder the blood of Christ that is our first acquisition of Easter.

Ralph B. Hathaway