Daily Reflections From Higher Things®

Today’s Reading: John 10:1-10 Daily Lectionary: Numbers 22:21-23:3; Luke 22:24-46 So Jesus again said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.” (John 10:7) In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. Jesus calls Himself the Door, the entrance into the sheepfold. If you want to belong to the flock, to God’s family, you must enter through Jesus. Later, Jesus will say that He is the Way, because no one comes to the Father except through Him (John 14:6). This is the Scandal of Particularity. There is only one particular way a person can be saved—through faith in Jesus Christ. The Mormon won’t come to the Father through his moral efforts, the Buddhist won’t experience true peace through his meditations, and the secularist won’t discover the truth through the probing of his reason. The world finds this biblical truth scandalous. Perhaps you are a bit scandalized by the condemnation of unbelievers as well. Still, there is another biblical truth: God desires all people to be saved and to come to the kn