As I drove up to school this morning, I thought to myself:  “I do not measure up”, and I walked into the building discouraged.  But as the day proceeded, I began to allow that truth to bless my life.

“YOUR DANG RIGHT I DON’T MEASURE UP!”  Amen!

Thank you Jesus.

In the depths of my soul, I so long to water down this gospel.  I would love to ride in on my horse and be the hero.

But again and again, I prove that I can’t even meet the most minimum of requirements.

I am lost, desperate, and without hope.

Never will I ever … be who I want me to be … much less what God would want …

And so there is a need that all other religions demand: adequacy. And I am unable to satisfy.  How could I possibly be adequate?

John 8 2 At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them.3 The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group4 and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.5 In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?”6 They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him. But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. 7 When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.”8 Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.

9 At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there.10 Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”

11 “No one, sir,” she said.

“Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”

The woman in John 8 is standing in a place of brokenness.  The enemy has accused her of not living up to the Godly standard.  And, in this one case, the enemy is correct.  But this situation has put her in a place where we all need to stand:  The place of knowing who we truly are.

As we stand before His throne, we might as well own up to who we truly are:  A sitting duck for Hell.  We are guilty as charged and unable to change our position.

But God …

When Jesus shows up to confront the mob, He does so by being willing to put it all on the line.  It is the mountain He is willing to die on.

And that … is my gospel … and my hope … and my King.

In The Name of the Father and the 

Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

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Coach J