Faith and Blood 101:5

5: Blood self-repairs the body using coagulation.

Blood comes from the marrow of your bones, where it is produced. It has in it the ability to heal wounds through a process called coagulation using platelets in the blood to begin the process. They in turn become fibrin stands that help to dam up the wound. Collagen helps the fibrin strand stick together to form a tissue that stops the bleeding and begins the healing.

Your faith has the ability to heal. Its power does not come from an external source, it comes from deep within you. Deep down in the inner most part of the man, in the marrow of the spirit. Down in that hollow spot that longs to be filled, filled with the presence of God. This unfilled area is designed by God but it is not altogether empty, actually not empty at all. It is filled with His voice, the voice of truth, calling out to your soul to seek its maker. It is this voice of truth that produces faith. I thought you said faith comes by hearing God’s word. I did. God’s word is truth and it abides in the marrow of the spirit, put there by God when you were created, but because of sin, you are born dead to this fact. Until you tell your “self” that it is no longer in control of you and give your life to Christ, you are living only with the measure of faith that was given to you at birth.

We often try to fill this hollow spot with the things of this world and find they are powerless to heal our broken heart. They are merely a band-aid to cover a wound that never heals. Thank God for that, for it is this continuous pain that keeps us looking for a healer, probing for an answer, searching for the truth.

Only Gods truth has the power to heal, it is the very essence of our faith, which was given to us by God. God’s word is the truth, it alone has the power to heal our spirit and save our soul. Our spiritual wounds are caused by disobedience and when we ask God to forgive us, we are using our faith in his word that he will thereby release the truth of his word, to work a miracle of healing.

John 8:31-36
31. Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
32. And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
33. They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?
34. Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
35. And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever.
36. If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

This is a big statement, one that really opened my eyes. I was like the guys in verse 33. I knew the facts and was servant to the facts but guess what? The facts do not set you free. The truth sets you free, free indeed.

We can know all about God and his word. We can be a scholar of Biblical history and understand doctrines and eschatology. We can try to shove all this down into that hollow spot within us, even these blogs with all of its explanations and yet find we are powerless to stop the bleeding. Only the truth will set us free, free from our wounds. Only the Spirit of God can reveal Gods truth that is in us, to us. The Spirit of God is brought to us through God’s word, which enters by hearing and is grasped by our faith.