MAY 6, John 20:29

“Mom! My arm!” gasped Boon as he stumbled into the kitchen. “It’s bleeding badly! I fell off my bike.”

Mom looked at Boon’s arm. “My car is at the service station, but don’t worry. We’ll get help for you,” she said as she reached for the phone to call for an ambulance. While she talked, she hurriedly got out some towels and pressed one tightly against the cut on Boon’s arm.

Soon they heard a siren, and the ambulance arrived. Accompanied by his mother, Boon was rushed to the hospital. A doctor examined the wound, and almost immediately, ordered a blood transfusion for him. “You lost a lot of blood, young man, but you’ll be fine,” the doctor said with a smile as blood flowed into Boon’s arm through a tube. “This blood saved your life.”

In the following days, Boon often thought about what the doctor had said. “They gave me someone else’s blood, and it saved my life,” he told his mother one day. “I wonder whose blood it was. Did the doctor tell you?”

“No. I wish I knew. I’d like to thank that person,” replied Mom, “but the blood they gave you came from the blood bank. It seems strange, doesn’t it, to know that blood from someone you’ve never even seen saved your life?”

Boon nodded. As he thought about it, he remembered the day he had gone to Sunday school with his friend Matt. This is something like what Matt’s teacher was talking about, thought Boon. “It’s Jesus who saves us,” the teacher had explained. “His blood washes away our sins. If it weren’t for Jesus and His death on the cross, we’d have no hope of going to Heaven.”

“I don’t get it,” Boon had told Matt after class. “How could the blood of Jesus help me? He lived years and years ago. I’ve never even seen Him!”

“You can believe without seeing Him,” Matt had replied. “I do.”

“Matt’s right!” Boon thought now. “If the blood of someone I’ve never seen can save my life here on earth, I guess the blood of someone I’ve never seen can save me from my sins too. I can believe in Jesus even if I haven’t seen Him.” Boon thought about it a little longer. “I’ll talk to Matt about it again,” he decided, “and I’m going to tell Mom about it, too.”

Thought: Do you wish you could see Jesus?

Prayer: Heavenly Father, although I can’t see Jesus, I can know Him through the teachings of the Bible. Please give me the faith to believe in Jesus. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.