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Day 8: John 3-12

Mark Bennett, Tattoo Artist + Levite at UPPERROOM

You can read it when you are proud of yourself or read it when you are crushed by life. Read it when you feel the wind at your back or when it feels like the whole world is against you. Somehow, our Man, our Savior, our Messiah, has a way of calling every single one of us to one single place. Now, it matters less how, where, or to whom we were born but that we must be born again. Whether He speaks to the voiceless Samaritan woman or the religious elite, we are all confronted with the fact that we are not who we want to be, nor do we know the way to get there.

We are caught in the crosshairs of a world that demands we compromise and compensate—compromise to be accepted and then compensate to placate the guilt of our compromise. From the radical mercy of chapter 8 to the brazen confrontation of the proud found thereafter, Christ has offered Himself as the solution and the way to the solution.

This is why we say that He is our everything. Look closely in chapter 10: He tells us that He is the gate AND the Good Shepherd who stands at the gate and calls our name—a brilliant parallel to Revelation chapter 4, where a door stands open in heaven AND the voice of One calls.

Today, may you learn from the most humble man I have ever known. And if He meets you with a strong word, may you embrace it until we are all formed into the likeness of this Man who is our everything.