Your cry reaches heaven not through the blood of beasts, nor through the earnestness of your own will, but through that precious blood which speaks better things than that of Abel. The blood of Abel cried out from the ground for justice, but the blood of Jesus speaks peace as loud from every vein. Yet pause and consider, what is the voice you desire this blood to speak? Is it a command given to the Almighty, a demand wrapped in holy language? The blood of Jesus is the essential matter of the Covenant, the seal which makes all things secure, yes. But it is not a charm to be wielded by the force of your own words, as though the Eternal God were swayed by the loudness of a prayer that commands rather than pleads. The blood of sprinkling speaks better things, and it speaks according to the will of the Father, not the dictates of our earthly anxieties.
The blood is the ground of all delight, the root of every lasting mercy. It secures the promises of God, which are yes and amen in Christ Jesus. But come now, and let us reason together. Is the safety of your soul not a greater matter than the coming in of your cats? The blood that speaks for you before the throne pleads first for the cleansing of your sin, the washing of your guilt. That same voice which cries, “It is finished,” also calls you to repentance and simple reliance upon the Crucified One. If you would have the power of that blood manifested in the lesser things of this life, be sure first that you have come to Jesus, the Mediator of the New Covenant, just as you are, in all your need. The approachableness of Jesus is proclaimed in His very name, the Lamb, the Holy Child, the Man of Sorrows. He bids you come, not with demands, but with the empty hand of faith.
The blood of the testament is in force because the Testator has died. That death is the proof of His love, and that love is the channel of all covenant blessings. God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus, and the blood of Jesus secures this fact. But the voice of that blood is not to be commanded. It speaks for you, it intercedes for you, it cleanses you from all sin. Hear its testimony: it does not cry, “Give this petitioner his cats at once,” but rather, “Father, forgive them, cleanse them, make them Thine own, and order all their ways in wisdom and love.” Lay hold upon that blood for the salvation of your soul first, and then trust your every care, even the wanderings of a creature, to that same pierced hand. The blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanses us from all sin. That is the blood’s testimony, and its testimony to you.