Stand at the foot of the cross. Look at those hands, those feet, that side—all distilling crimson streams of precious blood.

Why precious? First, because of its redeeming and atoning power. By this blood, the sins of Christ's people are atoned for. They are redeemed from under the law. They are reconciled to God, made one with him.

Christ's blood is precious because of its cleansing power. It cleanses from all sin. All of it. "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow." Through Jesus' blood, there is not a spot left upon any believer. No wrinkle. No stain. Nothing remains. O precious blood, which makes us clean, removing the stains of abundant iniquity, and permitting us to stand accepted in the Beloved, despite the many ways we have rebelled against our God!

The blood of Christ is precious in its preserving power. We are safe from the destroying angel under the sprinkled blood. And remember this: it is God's seeing the blood which is the true reason for our being spared. Here is comfort when the eye of faith is dim—God's eye is still the same.

This blood is precious in its sanctifying influence. The same blood that justifies by taking away sin does in its after-action quicken the new nature and lead it onward to subdue sin and follow out the commands of God. There is no motive for holiness so great as that which streams from the veins of Jesus.

And precious—unspeakably precious—is this blood because of its overcoming power. It is written: "They overcame through the blood of the Lamb." How could they do otherwise? He who fights with the precious blood of Jesus fights with a weapon which cannot know defeat. The blood of Jesus! Sin dies at its presence, death ceases to be death, heaven's gates are opened. The blood of Jesus! We shall march on, conquering and to conquer, so long as we trust in its power!