The Blood
During a bloody war, a cruel commander decided to murder everyone in a certain small village. Shortly after the massacre began, a fugitive observed that after the soldiers killed each one in the house, they smeared blood on the door to indicate death inside. Quickly, the fugitive sneaked to the house where his friends were awaiting certain death. At once the idea came to them — kill their goat and smear its blood on their door!
The task was barely completed when the soldiers approached that street. After slaughtering the residents of the neighboring houses, they came to the door smeared with goat’s blood. But they made no attempt to enter thinking that the deadly work had been already done. Although everyone else around them was murdered those behind the blood-marked door were saved!
If you had lived in that war zone would you have hesitated to hide behind that door with the blood on it? Death and judgment are coming for all of us, yet many refuse to escape through the blood of Jesus. God says, “When I see the blood, I will pass over you” (Exodus 12:13). Have you had the blood applied to your heart?
