One day, while I was organizing my personal documents at home, I came across an old health examination report. As I get older every year, I often feel that my body is not like it used to be. Whenever I feel that my body is getting older and there are not many days left to escape from my body forever, I am often lost in remorse. Because the examination result sheet was from nine years ago, I thought 'the examination result would have been better than now'. But surprisingly, the test results showed that there were many problems with my blood, not anywhere else. I was a little shocked to see the blood was cloudy and the shape of the blood cells scattered here and there. Rather, I was a little relieved and comforted by the current blood test results.
But then, I wondered, would my soul's blood be healthy and clean? Moreover, I wanted to check how it is now compared to the past. The source of all life is blood. Blood, which accounts for about 8% of our body weight, serves as a carrier that delivers not only oxygen but also essential substances such as protein and vitamins all over the body. It also receives carbon dioxide caused by cell activity, releases it through the lungs, and sends waste to the liver or kidneys to be broken down or out of the body through urine. In other words, it plays the most important role in maintaining life that carries good things for the body and releases bad things out of the body. It is said that we live in an era where each organ is transplanted to another person, so only one organ can function, and artificial organs are being developed one after another, but there are materials that can replace blood or cannot be made artificially. Only real blood is possible.
Then what is the real blood that keeps my soul alive? When intruders such as germs and viruses enter the blood, blood cells, white blood cells, block them. White blood cells swallow and break down bacteria by cellular action, and produce antibodies against once invaded bacteria to prevent them from catching the same disease again. And platelets, one of the blood cells, act to stop the blood when it is wounded. If this blood is cloudy or the blood flow is not smooth and fails to function, the entire body will lose function, inflammation in each area, and even cancer, making it impossible to sustain life. Like this, I thought that the only thing that kept my soul alive was the Word. The word of truth cannot be as fake or artificially created as blood can be. Words wind around my entire soul like blood, resuscitating my soul and removing scraps of my nature and pride. Satan always confuses the Word, takes it away and makes my soul sick so that it can be easily infected with the dirty things of the world. Just as those with healthy and clean blood do not get sick, the word of impurity-free truth and covenant is a shield that prevents our souls from entering Satan's test and the sword of the Holy Spirit that kills the nature of sin planted by Satan. We are useless like scraps and sometimes, we fall all the time because we mistakenly think that only our own is right. And I fall and get a scar. Just as the scar can be healed when blood is collected and the scab is formed, If we miss the word of the truth due to the wound of the soul, the soul eventually dies without recovering healthy, but every Word covers the wound of the soul to heal the wound.
Am I holding onto the word of the covenant every moment and recovering from the wounds of my soul through it? Do you not distinguish between the things of the world and the things of God and live in misunderstanding? I am looking back at the state of my soul today as well. 'Word' is 'blood' that saves my soul.
"It is the spirit to save, and the flesh is useless, for what I have told you is the spirit and the life." (John 6:63)