The Lintels of Our Hearts - Poem by Raymond A. Foss

The blood of the lamb
spirit, life, eternal life
spread on the lintels of our hearts
marking us, a chosen people
set apart in love
passing over our lives
the wrath, the judgment to come
sheep for the pasture
on the right hand of God
wheat for the granary
grapes for the vintner
part of the family
marked by the blood of the lamb

August 25, 2009
Exodus 12:13
Exodus 12:21-23
Exodus 12:1:30
and “Daily Mediations: On Golden Texts of the Bible”,
by Henry Gariepy
http://books.google.com/books?id=9tjVtRt3TUMC&pg=PP1&dq=henry+gariepy&ei=yY2CSoi1BqSCywSWprXWCg#v=onepage&q=&f=false
&
John 6:63b and John 6:68b
&
John 6:60-63
&
John 6:56-69
Alive Now Daily Reflections for 8/22/09
http://alivenow.upperroom.org/daily-reflections/daily-reflections-for-august-17-23/
&
Alive Now Daily Reflections for 8/23/09
http://alivenow.upperroom.org/daily-reflections/daily-reflections-for-august-17-23/
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John 6:56-69
Upper Room Disciplines for 2009
for August 22, 2009
&
John 6:66-69
Upper Room Disciplines for 2009
for August 23, 2009

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Blood on the Lintels

Blood shed in fulfillment,
willingly spilled for us
spread blood of the lamb
Blood on the lintels, the threshold,
the door frame, the
entrance, the portal
around the chambers
of our hearts
protecting us
from the sins
of the world
That evil would pass us by
that your spirit within us
may defeat the kernel of sin
that shares that inner space,
that grows with the wheat
within us too,
from before our birth
It is the blood of the lamb
alone
that saves us

October 29, 2006 21:03
Exodus 12:7 They shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. 8 They shall eat the lamb that same night; they shall eat it roasted over the fire with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. 9 Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted over the fire, with its head, legs, and inner organs. 10 You shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall burn. 11 This is how you shall eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it hurriedly. It is the passover of the Lord. 12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike down every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both human beings and animals; on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the Lord. 13 The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you live: when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague shall destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.

Psalm 51:5 Indeed, I was born guilty, a sinner when my mother conceived me.

John 1:29 The next day he saw Jesus coming towards him and declared, ‘Here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

Hebrews 9:11 But when Christ came as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation), 12 he entered once for all into the Holy Place, not with the blood of goats and calves, but with his own blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption. 13 For if the blood of goats and bulls, with the sprinkling of the ashes of a heifer, sanctifies those who have been defiled so that their flesh is purified, 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to worship the living God!