Something about watching the blood flow out of Ray's arm through a seemingly huge tube and into the whirring plasmapherisis machine; then seeing it return and flow back into his other arm, has made me put a lot of thought into blood itself.
Ray's blood is being filtered. Another young man in the bed next to Ray was having his platelets removed and transfused with six (maybe more) units of type B+ blood, the same type as mine. This young man was dependent on human blood to keep him alive.
We are all dependent on His blood for our eternal life.
"..knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot. He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God." 1 Peter 1:18-21
"Much more then, since we have now been declared righteous by His blood, we will be saved through Him from wrath." Romans 5:9
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