Your life is not your own,
Don’t live on bread alone,
Life not sustained by blood or flesh,
Nor by your works atoned.
Then see this owner’s manual,
With statutes called continual,
Prohibits eating blood and fat,
Is this then still immoral?
Was this not abrogated,
These temple statutes stated?
Yet we are priests and temples now,
A people consecrated.
Uncleanness was repealed,
Yet blood was holy sealed,
To drink it seems imprudent then,
All to the Lord we yield.
Abstention will not save,
Salvation bought by grace,
Our life redeemed by Christ’s own blood,
His blood alone we crave.
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