The Chinese version is after the English one.
中文版本在英文版本下。
After accepting the salvation of Jesus Christ, the precious blood shed on the cross has the power to cleanse our souls, remove sins, and cover us, protecting us from the attacks and harm of the evil one.
As I was learning to pray for the cleansing and covering of the precious blood, a naive thought came to my mind: Since everyone is praying for the covering of the precious blood, how much blood did Jesus actually shed? Even if He is God and has enough blood to use, since the blood is “precious,” shouldn’t it be “used sparingly”?
I had a moment of clarity when meditating on the miracle of the five loaves and two fish. Jesus took the five loaves and two fish offered by a little boy, lifted them up, blessed them, broke the bread, gave it to the disciples, and the disciples distributed it to the crowd, feeding five thousand people, and turned out leaving twelve baskets of leftovers.
Not only did the five loaves and two fish “multiply,” but in this miracle, they turned into “infinity.” When my daughter was 4 years old, she asked if infinity is the largest number. Papa told her, “No, because the largest number can always be added by 1, and that’s infinity.” Jesus, in giving thanks and breaking the bread, didn’t just make more; if it were a mere multiplication, there should be less as it is divided more, but instead, there was more abundance in the process of sharing and distributing. This tells us that there is no need to use the body and blood of Jesus “sparingly” (of course, not to misuse it). The sharing of infinity means that there will always be more.
Every day, we don’t live by ourselves but share in the body and blood of the Lord Jesus, sharing His life, and allowing the Lord to pass on life through us, just as He gave the bread and fish to the disciples for them to distribute to the people. In essence, the miracle of feeding five thousand people continues to happen.
Thank the Lord for giving us this miracle, recorded in the Bible, revealing such an important mystery.
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寶血需要「省著用」嗎？
接受耶穌基督的救恩後，祂在十架上流出的寶血，就能把人的靈魂洗淨、去除罪孽，還可以遮蓋我們，免受那惡者的攻擊傷害。
在我學習祈禱求寶血潔淨和遮蓋時，傻傻的真會想：人人都求寶血遮蓋，其實耶穌到底流了幾多血呢？即使祂是神，有足夠的血可以用，寶血既然是「寶」，就要「省著用」。
不知何時默想五餅二魚神蹟時，就豁然開朗了。耶穌把一個小男孩獻上的五個餅、兩條魚，拿起，向天祝謝，然後把餅擘開，遞給門徒，門徒又分給群眾，餵飽了五千人，吃剩的還盛滿了十二個籃子。
在這個神蹟裡，耶穌不單把五個餅和兩條魚「變多了許多」，而是「變成無限 (infinity)」。女兒四歲時曾問：「Infinity 是不是最大的數字？」爸爸就答：「不是，因為最大的數字永遠可以再加1，這就是 infinity。」耶穌祝謝、把餅擘開，若純粹變多，應該是愈分愈少，而祂卻是愈分愈有。十二籃子的剩食告訴我們，不需把耶穌的身體和血「省著用」(當然不是叫人濫用)：Infinity 的分享，就是永遠可以加1，永遠都有剩餘。
我們每天不是靠自己而活，而是分享主耶穌的身體和血，分享祂的生命，並且讓主透過我們傳遞生命，猶如祂把餅和魚遞給門徒，讓門徒分給眾人一樣，其實就是餵飽五千人的神蹟不斷重現。
感謝主賜我們這個神蹟，記在聖經上，揭示了如此重要的奧秘。
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