Much sickness bows your parents down, and your heart cries out for their relief. Yet look not first to their maladies, but to the blood of the everlasting covenant. That precious blood, shed once for many for the remission of sin, is the fountain from which every mercy flows. When you pray for your mother’s lungs and your father’s eyes and frame, plead the blood. Not your estimate of it, but the blood itself God sees. "When I see the blood, I will pass over you." The passing over of disease, as of the destroying angel, comes by that one divine token. Bring your parents in the arms of faith to the cross, and sprinkle them, as it were, with that blood which cleanseth from all sin, and from all sickness too, if it be the Lord's will.
The blood of Jesus speaks better things than the blood of Abel. It cries not for vengeance, but for mercy. It secures the covenant, signed and ratified by His death, and all the promises of healing are yea and amen in Him. Plead that blood for your mother's infection, for your father's many complaints. The blood is the price of redemption, and the purchase includes the body as well as the soul. Did He not bear our sicknesses? Then let your prayers be steeped in the atoning sacrifice. Yet remember, the blood cleanseth the soul first. Oh, that both your parents may know its power to wash away guilt! There is no healing so deep as the sense of pardon, no liberty like that which comes by the blood of the covenant. For your father’s sight, seek that his inward eyes behold the Lamb of God. For his heart, seek the sprinkling that gives peace. All his bodily weaknesses are but shadows; let the substance be Christ.
Go to the mercy-seat with boldness, for the blood has opened the way. In every petition, mention that blood. It is the life of prayer, the seal of the Testament. Without shedding of blood there is no remission; but with it, all blessings are secured. The double portion, as in Zechariah, comes by the blood of the covenant. Ask largely for your parents’ restoration, but ask chiefly that they may be found in Him, not having their own righteousness, but washed in the crimson flood. The water and the blood together purify and pardon. Pray that the water of the Spirit may cleanse them from the love of sin, and that the blood may shield them from its curse. Whether the Lord grants recovery or delay, the blood abides. Cheer your heart with this: Christ’s blood never loses its power. Trust it, and you shall not be confounded.