The Ultimate Blood Price

UV 3452/10000 The Blood Price
Whoever sheds man’s blood (unlawfully), by man ( judicial government) shall his blood be shed, for in the  image of God He made man.

Genesis 9 v 6

The serpent leader instigates  people  in every generation to unjustly commit violence and murder.  In fact, God had made man in the image of God, the image of His Son Jesus. It implies that we are made in the likeness of the absolute true, holy, perfect, loving, merciful, all knowing, all powerful,good God. This is the reason we cannot make a likeness of God while we can aspire to be a likeness of God. Since the serpent leader tempted man and man succumbed, the image of God in man was distorted. We started dabbling in the relatively good and the relatively evil, a mix of the two in all that we think, speak and do. Sin is equated with death and hence, a blood price had to be paid for every human to live. Then, the Servant Leader Jesus was sent as Messiah to redeem man and restore him to the image of God.   The combination of God’s absolute love, justice and mercy required the redeeming  sacrifice to be made by the Servant Leader, Jesus as there was no other way to do it.    God had set a huge value for the life or blood of every human. The price for a man's life is too high and it cannot be paid by himself, wrote the Psalmist.  Of how much more value is the life or blood of the Servant Leader, Jesus!  It is enough to pay for the lives of all humanity who believes, receives and accepts it as their blood price. 

The irony is that the judicial government ordered the execution of the Servant Leader Jesus in an unjust, mock trial.  The serpent leader instigated the Jewish religious leaders and the local people to press for the crucifixion of Jesus. The prophet Isaiah’s words came true when He went like a sheep to be slaughtered without uttering a word to resist or protest the injustice.   He had done only good to people, healing, delivering, teaching everywhere He went during His earthly sojourn and yet, He was unjustly handed over to be put to death.  God would not allow His faithful Servant to rot in the grave and hence, He resurrected Jesus. The blood price had been paid, good had triumphed over evil, death had been put to death.

Blood price had been paid for each one of us. We who now believe and follow the Servant Leader have a duty to conform to the image of God, of Christ who showed the way and became the Way to eternal life.   Our thoughts, emotions, words, actions, desires should be like those of Jesus.  We should ourselves be servant leaders like Jesus and not have any truck or connection or leaning or influence of the serpent leader in our lives.  We should emulate Jesus who is both humble and gentle though He is God.  Of all His qualities, Jesus asks us to only focus on just two - humility and gentleness. When we are humble and gentle, we resemble Jesus or we become an image of the Servant Leader.