Being infected with a virus that is so deadly gave me no way out. It even started to affect my physical well-being. It was eating me on the inside. No earthly doctors who care for the physical health of people could heal me of this disease. There have been days it caused havoc in my life. I could have died with this virus still inside of me. I needed a transfusion badly that will wipe out the virus. I could receive the transfusion but a price had to be paid for that transfusion.

Usually, doctors charge us to heal us physically. But, in my case no amount of money could restore my health and my days were ticking away until one day death would come.

I was told of a doctor who specialized in helping people overcome this deadly infection of a disease but that doctor alone had the antidote and was not giving it out until I sought him. I did not want this disease to completely take over me and was desperate for an antidote.

That doctor had the antidote inside of him and it was the same color as my blood. For me to receive it meant, he would have to give up all his blood in the transfusion, so the deadly virus can be wiped away being covered by his blood in the transfusion. This would allow the corrupted blood of mine because of the infection, to be covered over by the doctor’s cleansing blood that washes away the deadly virus inside of me.

The price was too much to pay but the doctor was willing to pay it.

Am I that valuable and important that a doctor was willing to go through a transfusion that would have given him so much excruciating pain?

In a blood transfusion, a doctor is involved; a donor is involved; the person accepting the transfusion, an Intravenous Needle, a tube, a bed, and the blood are used.

Not in this case though because an intravenous-needle and tube would not have accomplished the mission.

Instead, three nails and a hammer were used! Being on the bed would not accomplish the mission. Instead, the doctor had to be on the cross. Now, the transfusion was ready to begin as the blood flowed because of the three nails pounded into the body to suck out all the blood from the donor so the one who accepts the blood can receive the transfusion and completely be healed.

After what the doctor went through for me and provided the antidote, how could I refuse the transfusion and continue to live with this deadly disease! I did accept the transfusion offered to by the doctor.

To this day, I am covered by the blood of the doctor that wiped away the deadly virus inside of me. His blood cleanses me of this deadly virus as I turn to him and receive what he has done for me. Because of the sacrifice of the doctor, I was given new life.

I am talking about Jesus Christ being my Great Physician. He went to the cross to give me the antidote for my deadly infectious virus known as sin. His cleansing precious pure blood shed on the cross became my antidote to wash away and wipe away this deadly virus from my body. Jesus took the initiative to be my Great Physician and heal me. Jesus did not force me to accept the antidote but how could I refuse after what Jesus went through for me. Jesus went to the cross and went through excruciating pain so I could be in good spiritual health when I turn to Him. I have friend. You can too friend!

<sup>Prayer:

Dear Jesus, I love you. Thank you for loving me so much and thank you for choosing the cross to die for me. You became the Son of Man and lived here on earth. Then you humbled yourself and became obedient to death-even death on the cross. Thank you for dying on the cross for my sin. You died on the cross so that I can be covered in your blood and cleansed by your blood as I acknowledge that I need you and cannot enter Heaven without you being my pathway. So, Jesus I confess all my sins to you and all the ways I have tried to get into Heaven when you already provided the means and the Way. I am sorry for my sins. Thank you for all that you have done for me. The cross is the place, a wonderful place where accused and condemned find mercy and grace. Thank you Jesus, it is at the cross where the wrongs we have done and the wrongs done to us were nailed at the cross. Thank you Jesus, at the cross you died for our sins and at the cross you gave your life for us. I thank you for that and thank you for coming back to life to save us. Thank you Jesus for being there for me! Thank you for loving me. I love you Jesus! Please take me as I am and make my life into something that you will be proud of. I surrender my life to you and need your help to live for you. I am forever grateful for what you have done for me and I can never repay you. I want to live for you and need your help. Help me Jesus please. I thank you Jesus for saving us! Thank you for hearing my prayer and answering me. Whatever your will give me the willingness and strength to bear it. Come into my heart and please make my heart your home. Live in me Jesus and I will live for you and serve you all the days of my life as you help me. Thank you Jesus! I acknowledge you as my Lord and Personal Savior! In Your Name I Pray precious Jesus! Amen!</sup>

Friend, if you have prayed this prayer and meant it in your heart, you are a new creation in Christ and all old things are passed away and everything has become new! You may feel something or may not but don’t base it on feelings but base your new life in Christ on the promises of our Savior who will never leave you nor forsake you! Amen!

Spend time in His word and let the Lord speak to you! Start out in the Gospel of Mark which are also the devotionals I have been going through before the Christmas Devotionals and hope to continue in them. Learn from Jesus through study and prayer. Also find yourself a fellowship you can be part of where you can be part of a community of believers to supplement your own walk with the Lord. Let it be a Bible-believing and Bible-breathing church! Believe in Bible Live Eternally!

Feel free to email me at reddy4hisglory2004@yahoo.com if you want to meet to study the Bible, pray with, talk about Spiritual issues or whatever is on your mind! My number is 412-720-4579

"This is my work and I can do it only because Christ's mighty energy is at work within me." (Colossians 1:29, TLB)

Love in Christ,
Ramesh

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