Bleed Between The Lines

One of the thing we can do to choke our relationship with Jesus is put a limit on what he’s worth. See Jesus was a blameless and perfect. His death was a sacrifice good enough to cover all the sins of all mankind. Like Peter sinking in the lake we diminish Christs connection with us when we don’t have faith in his worth.

There are many ways that we start to degrade Jesus. The first is by saying that Jesus isn’t necessary to get to Heaven. This is important because there are Christians who say “I believe that Jesus died for me but I don’t think he’s the ONLY way to heaven.” If Jesus’s blood isn’t the only thing that can get you into heaven then Jesus’s blood wasn’t necessary. Why would God send his Son to be insulted and beaten, to the point of death if it wasn’t necessary. Jesus’s blood is precious and God wouldn’t send him unless there was no other way.

The second thing we do is place boundaries on the sin Jesus’s blood can cover. We decide that if some one doesn’t look or act Christian then they can’t be saved. Or for more reasonable Christians, we can tend to believe that Jesus’s blood isn’t enough to cover murder or rape, or the idea that Hitler couldn’t be saved because he was TOO evil. We’re all wretched and deserving of death it is by the grace of God that we have any chance of redemption. By picking and choosing who we think can be saved we’re not highlighting the sins of the evil, we’re discounting the price of Jesus’s blood.

The third and most personally devastating thing we can do is decide that we don’t deserve forgiveness. Sometimes when we struggle with an issue (i.e. Anger, greed, lust, lies,…) We stumble after making a commitment and decide I’m not good enough to ask for forgiveness, I don’t even know if I really mean it. And then while we know we should ask for forgiveness, we sit by and deny God the ability to decide if we deserve forgiveness or not. This like earlier lowers the value of Jesus’s blood by us saying, I’ve sinned to much and I’m not sorry enough for Jesus’s blood to cover me. You’re a dumb human destined to mess up, Let God be God and he can decide if you’re forgiven. Jesus’s blood is enough to cover all sins from all people.

In the long run let God be God and you just do what you know is right. When we put limits on the power of Jesus’s blood we’re doing nothing more then playing god ourselves.