Key Bible Verse: He paid for you with the precious lifeblood of Christ, the sinless, spotless Lamb of God (1 Peter 1:19). Bonus Reading: Matthew 26:26-28

Samuel Weinstein is the chief of pediatric cardio-thoracic surgery for the Children's Hospital at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. Last May he traveled to El Salvador with Heart Care International to provide life-saving operations for less-fortunate children.

His team began operating on eight-year-old Francisco Fernandez's heart. Twelve hours later, the surgery, which had been going well, took a deadly turn. "He was bleeding a lot, and they didn't have a lot of the medicines we would use to stop the bleeding," Dr. Weinstein said. "After a while they said they were running out of his rare blood type" (B-negative, present in only two percent of the population).

The only other one in the room with B-negative blood was Dr. Weinstein. He knew what he had to do. As his colleagues continued their precision work, Weinstein set aside his scalpel and began washing his hands and forearm. Then the prestigious doctor from one of the world's most advanced hospitals sat down to give a pint of his own blood.

After drinking some bottled water and eating a Pop-Tart, Dr. Weinstein rejoined his colleagues. As his own blood begin circulating into the boy's small veins, he completed the operation that saved Francisco's heart—and life.

—Jim Fitzgerald in LiveScience.com

My Response: I'll thank Jesus that He gave his lifeblood so that I can live.

Adapted from LiveScience.com (5/26/06) by permission.

Prayer for the Week

Thank you, Father, that You accepted the Son's sacrifice as payment in full for all our sins.

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