The Blood that Mends

“When the broken vessel came out of the fire cracked at the lip, the potter had a remedy to salvage it. After he had finished his work for the day, he would go out through the fields and hunt for a small tick-like insect, a fasuka, that lived on bulls and goats. Having found some, he would take them home to his shop where he would keep them in small clay jars or leather bags. Thus when a broken vessel came out of the fire with a cracked lip or some other flaw, the potter would not discard the vessel but would sit at his bench for a great length of time working to repair it. With dry clay powder and infinite patience he labored. Taking the fasuka between his thumb and forefinger, he crushed it. Then he mixed that blood with the clay powder to make a mixture that worked effectively and uniquely as a “glue” into the cracked area.”

The late Dr Sam Sasser in his book The Potter’s Touch succinctly brought out the amazing power of the blood of Christ. He went on to say: “The cross of Calvary provides a glue that works effectively and uniquely in the lives of broken people. How thankful we should be for Christ’s blood, shed at Calvary for our salvation. Stronger than the blood of bulls and goats (Heb 9:12), the blood of the Lamb is God’s provision for cracked, flawed men and women. Jesus Christ shed His precious blood to bring wholeness to all who have been broken and cracked in life’s fire.”