"LET HIS BLOOD BE ON US AND OUR CHILDREN"

“Crucify Him!”

“Let His Blood be on us and our children.”

It startled me when I thought, “That’s the same prayer I pray. Cover me and cover my family with Thy blood.”

So different the intent, their words and mine, yet so alike in ultimate meaning.

They did not know their words carried such prophetic importance. The words have now, to me, become one of the most poignant descriptions of the plan of salvation.

What they snarled out as a curse, in fact, became the only thing that could redeem them and their children from sin’s curse. The very Blood their hatred spilled and cursed could atone for their grizzly deeds that caused it to flow.

All they—and we—have to do is ask.

Unthinkable!

Wonderful!

Did some of them avail of that forgiving Blood? I can’t know but I think so. I do know about the thousands that were added to the church at Pentecost and daily thereafter.

I do know that countless martyrs mingled their blood with His in Rome’s Coliseum and Circus.

I do know that more martyrs have mingled their blood with His in my lifetime than the combined totals of all 2000 years since Christ’s death until my birth.

Brutal slayers still curse their victims’ blood and the Blood they preached about. Yet Calvary’s Blood will still cover their sins—if they but ask.

With a thankful heart I say, “Let His Blood be on me and on my children.”