Luke 22:44 Jesus was in great pain and prayed so sincerely that His sweat fell to the ground like drops of blood.
From the ‘Garden of Gethsemane’ to ‘Golgotha’ Jesus shed blood seven times. It was at the garden when He was praying with anguish and extreme emotional agony that His sweat turned into blood. Hematidrosis is a condition in which capillary blood vessels that feed the sweat glands rupture, causing them to exude blood, occurring under conditions of extreme physical or emotional stress. Jesus experienced hematidrosis as He was battling with the humiliation, hatred and harassment just before His arrest and crucifixion. At the house of Caiaphas His beard was pulled in mockery and His face bled. I gave my back to those who struck me, and my cheeks to those who pulled out the beard; I did not hide my face from insult and spitting (Isaiah 50:6). His face was covered with blood, spit and shame. Then His back was brutally flogged with a whip of leather straps embedded with sharp metal pieces. His back was ripped open and His body was battered that He was unrecognizable. His appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any human being and his form marred beyond human likeness (Isaiah 52:15).
Jesus shed blood in anguish at the Garden of Gethsemane so we can be set free from the distress and torments of injustice and abuse. He bled in His face at the house of Caiaphas so our humiliation can turn into honour and our shame can turn into significance. He allowed His back to be ploughed with the dreadful whip to heal our physical sickness. One drop of blood of Jesus is more powerful than the abuse, anguish and agony that we go through.
The Blood of Jesus restores, reinstates and recuperates:
1. Harassment: Jesus suffered injustice so we might be healed from the scars or abuse and prejudice. Are you struggling to forgive your offenders who hurled false witnesses about you and mercilessly abused you when you were vulnerable? We can never forgive those who mistreat and misuse us with our own strength. Apply the blood that was shed in the Garden of Gethsemane. A sweet sense of forbearance and forgiveness will wipe out harassment.
2. Humiliation: Pulling the beard or shaving the beard of a Jew was considered a pejorative public humiliation. Jesus took all the humiliation on Himself when He allowed His beard to be brutally pulled away. Apply the blood from His marred face over the humiliation and embarrassment you have suffered. The resurrected blood of Jesus sets us free from humiliation and turns it into honour.
3. Healing: His back was broken so we can be healed through His stripes. Every nerve, tendon, muscle and bone of Jesus was butchered so that you and I can receive healing through His resurrected blood.
The blood of Jesus restores happiness instead of harassment, reinstates honour instead of humiliation, and revitalizes physical and emotional healing.
1 Peter 2:24 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities.
Prayer: Jesus my Restorer, I apply your resurrected blood over the abuse, ill treatment, embarrassment, shame, stigma and the sickness. Thank you for the incredible price you have paid to set me free. Amen
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