As many of you know, Steve Jobs passed away a few weeks ago. He was the cofounder of Apple and its CEO during the launching of the iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad, leading Apple to becoming one of the most valuable companies in the world.

Soon after his death, I came across the following headline:
“Steve Jobs is Dead…There’s No App For That”
Playing off of the famous iPhone tagline, “There’s an App for That,” the headline raises a valuable point. I thought about it for a while. Is that true? Technically, yes, you cannot find an app in the iTunes store to resurrect the dead. However, there is an app to help us face eternity and join in the final resurrection. It’s just not one that Steve Jobs came up with. It’s also not one that’s on your iPhone. The only application that will help you, me, Steve Jobs, or anyone else face death is the blood of Jesus applied to our lives. That’s it. Done. Nothing else.

Try and picture this: I want your mind to go back to the Old Testament. I want you to think about Israel, living in Egypt. At first things were good, but eventually things went bad. The pharaoh turned on the people of Israel, killed their children and made them his slaves. God watched patiently, until one day he had seen enough. He appeared to Moses and sent him to the pharaoh with a series of warnings. The final warning was that death and destruction would come upon Egypt.

Moses told the pharaoh that God makes a distinction between Israel and Egypt, between those who are his people and those who are not. God told Moses to tell the Israelites to cover their door posts with the blood from a slaughtered lamb, a lamb without defect. The Israelites did as they were told, and that night destruction came on Egypt. Every home not protected by the blood of the lamb felt the wrath of God. The Word of God says, “When I see the blood I will pass over you” (Exodus 12:13).

Folks, it’s no different today. When God is ready to come for you do you know what he’s looking for? He is NOT looking for your perfect application of what he tells you to do. He is looking for the application of his perfect Son’s blood! When he sees that, it covers your sins. God says, “When I see the blood, my only Son’s blood, I will pass…over…you.”

“Blessed are those who wash their robes (in the blood of the Lamb), so that they may have the right to the tree of life and that they may enter the city by the gates” (Revelation 22:14).

So yeah, it turns out…there’s an app for that. Do you look at yourself and see your pride, your selfishness and your addiction to approval? There’s an app for that.

Do you look at yourself and see your tendency to speak ill of your parents or your spouse? Or do you see your justifying of your lustful fantasies? Do you see your sin? There’s an app for that.

Are you going to face death one day? Is your body going to give up? There’s an app for that. The blood of Jesus. The blood of the Lamb.

Rev. David Foss is the lead pastor at Bethel LBC in Fergus Falls, MN.