The Only Antidote

There it is – pulsing with its evil rhythm and staring up at you with those beady, black eyes. Breathing in the beauty of life and exhaling darkness & death. The parasite eats, devours and destroys all that is good. It taints your thoughts. It warps your mind. It slowly consumes every ounce of life in you and then licks its insatiable lips - wanting more.

Sin is an ugly cancer – a wicked destroyer. It permeates all of God’s creation leaving its toxic trail of destruction behind. And try as we might with weapons & medicines, philosophies & technologies – we will never be able to cure its vicious ills. Its parasitic nature drives it ever onward screeching, “More! More! More!”

It bites and chases. It stalks and preys. Its grip is too strong. Its hold is too firm. Sin has infested the sacred cells of each and every soul. It has invaded the secret chambers of each and every heart. There are none immune to its ravening appetite. There are none that will not ultimately succumb to the chronic ravaging of its gnawing, grinding teeth.

No matter how hard you try to resist, the disease will overcome you. You can push it down into remission at times but it always – always – awakes from its dormant state. “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, every one, to his own way…” (Isaiah 53:6a) We leave the way that the Lord has laid out for us. And when we do, the sickness of sin sets in like a dark wetness in our bones.

We can’t go on like this! Our bodies are wasting away. It is only a matter of time. The consumption has overtaken us and we are very near the point of an infinite, irreversible death. If only there was a cure – an antidote! Our strength is dwindling. Our resolve is breaking. We are in desperate need of a miraculous elixir that can eradicate this dreaded disease that has invaded our bodies and souls. Desperate.

There is one antidote – but only one. It is found in the purest of all blood. And what a potent antidote it is!

“…if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin.” (1 John 1:7)

There is only one cure for the fatal disease of sin. You don’t drink it in by accident. You can’t just sip it in one drop at a time. You’ve either been cured or you’re still wasting away with a slow-moving death. When that precious blood touches your soul, it cleanses it once and for all. The sickness is gone. The healing begins. But, you must accept the cure.