Blood Disease

Submitted by Alan Marsden on Tue, 14/01/2025 - 00:00

I passed a tree last week which was seeping orange sap, but the cold weather had frozen it into a stalagmite-type structure. Despite the cold, it was still ‘wet’ though tasteless (because I was curious, to answer your question). Trees ought not to lose sap. It is their equivalent of blood, and contains the sugars and other nutrients which they need to live and grow. Seepage, much like our bleeding, may be on account of injury to the external wood, or disease, such as varieties of gummosis.

My doctors’ surgery recently gave me a ‘health MOT’. I suspect their motives were additional payments from government rather than any particular concern for me, but hey-ho. Most of it consisted of questions such as “How much alcohol do you consume?” and “How often do you exercise?”, but from a single blood test, a range of data was harvested. From the state of my blood, diseases, cancers, immunity levels and organ efficiencies could all be detected and monitored. The Book of Hebrews chapter 9 verse 22 declares:

And according to the law almost all things are purified with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no remission [of sin].

Whereas my 'spiritual blood' was diseased, polluted, befouled and poisoned, Christ’s, whose blood was shed on my behalf, was vital, pure, unsullied and without sin. He died a bloody death that this bloody sinner might be redeemed and clothed in pure, white linen. His life for mine, His death for mine, His blood for mine, and His heaven for me.