The flow of blood causes more emotional stress than the other flows. But a virtuous person feels an internal desire and need to donate blood for others, with the Red Cross or Lifestream.
And in a critical time of risk, law enforcement, national emergency, or military combat, willingness to be in harm's way is one of the most important spiritual qualities, an indication of selflessness and martyric saintliness.
But when we are inhibited, the retention of an anticipated flow of blood is an indication of internalized disobedience that points to a contracted personality afraid for its own safety, prioritizing self-love and instinctual self-preservation.
Overcoming self-love and the shame of cowardice is one of the more obvious obstacles on our path toward Everlasting Life.
Our walk with God requires, sooner or later, that we be willing to be nobly sacrificed with the Messiah in imitation of martyric apostles and Jewish prophets who gave us the Bible and martyric, Israeli role-model precedents.
When we observe leaders and candidates for public office, one of the most important indications of sincerity is an unihibited personality ready to be slain for principles, for God and Country. The deployment of security networks is part of the modern sociological order.
But proactive individuals are not supposed to require excessive personal security when faith in God Himself is the causal power that guarantees the presence of the Spirit and His angels surrounding us, preempting any possible attack.
He who loses his life for my sake . . . the same will find it. This inverse, losing and finding, reveals the need to attain to a level of the Spirit's sanctification poured into the person who has been poured out in the performance of the Will of God.
Emptiness is a spiritual requirement, a personal, selfless quality attained to by the very few.
Emptiness in the purified servant reveals that risk-taking on behalf of others is knowledgeable, rational, and deeply distracted by an acute and prayerful love; servitude that is full of an intelligent hope.