are you washed...?

My child is so tired, he's not speaking. This is a novel event in our house...I kind of like it, the way he's too tired to talk, the way he sleeps through...but I kinda miss him. This morning he announced he didn't want to go to school any more, because he was tired and he wanted to stay in the house in his PJ's and do nothing. So I spied on him when I dropped him at breakfast club.
There's nothing quite so lovely as spying on your child is there? I watched him get his cereal. He said please! He carried his own tray and didn't drop it...he called out to his friend to join him, he let the supervisor take his tray.
And I waved. But he couldn't see me. So he didn't wave back.
I didn't know his thoughts; but he looked to be having a very pleasant breakfast time and I was happy enough to run for the bus, and begin my thoughts of blood.
All month I have been obsessed with blood. Did you ever hear that song 'are you washed in the blood?'...did you ever wonder how you could be 'washed' in 'blood'? You know, 'Are you washed in the blood, in the soul cleansing blood of the Lamb...are your garments spotless are they white as snow, are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?'  How could I be washed in blood?



Psalm 139:1-4 God knows your thoughts, before you express them.
Isaiah 43:25 God can choose not to remember your sins.
Leviticus 17:11 There has to be blood for atonement, the forgiveness of sins.
Hebrew 10:1-18 Only the blood of Christ will do.


Psalm 139

For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.

1 You have searched me, Lord,
    and you know me.
2 You know when I sit and when I rise;
    you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 You discern my going out and my lying down;
    you are familiar with all my ways.
4 Before a word is on my tongue
    you, Lord, know it completely.



Isaiah 43:25

25 “I, even I, am he who blots out
    your transgressions, for my own sake,
    and remembers your sins no more.

Leviticus 17:11

11 For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that makes atonement for one’s life.


Hebrews 10:1-18

10 The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming—not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship. 2 Otherwise, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins. 3 But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins. 4 It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

5 Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said:

“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire,
    but a body you prepared for me;
6 with burnt offerings and sin offerings
    you were not pleased.
7 Then I said, ‘Here I am—it is written about me in the scroll—
    I have come to do your will, my God.’”
8 First he said, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them”—though they were offered in accordance with the law. 9 Then he said, “Here I am, I have come to do your will.” He sets aside the first to establish the second. 10 And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

11 Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 12 But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, 13 and since that time he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool. 14 For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.

15 The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says:

16 “This is the covenant I will make with them
    after that time, says the Lord.
I will put my laws in their hearts,
    and I will write them on their minds.”
17 Then he adds:

“Their sins and lawless acts
    I will remember no more."
18 And where these have been forgiven, sacrifice for sin is no longer necessary.