Always New

How amazing we can read the same scriptures over and over and still see something new. In I Peter 1:2, the Apostle Peter wrote, “who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to be obedient to Jesus Christ and sprinkled with his blood” (NIV). How often I have read those words and not focused on “sprinkled with his blood.” As in the Old Covenant when the high priest sprinkled the Israelites with the sacrificial blood of forgiveness, our Savior’s lifeblood was sprinkled, not just on one people, but on the entire human race, forgiveness for all, past, present and future. I’m awestruck by such love!