Jesus was good enough to Lose! He wasn’t defeated, he wasn’t murdered, he laid his life down on the cross. There are going to be times that we are called to do what goes against our nature… and deny ourselves and take up our cross and follow Him. And that means sometimes he leads us to those places where we have to be good enough to lose.

We focus on our failures, our inadequacies, and our missed opportunities. Just like Peter, that rooster keeps crowing at us reminding us of how bad we messed up. But we need to remember that our identity isn’t found where and when we have failed, but in Christ. And with identity comes purpose.

Peter declared that He would never forsake Jesus. And although Jesus knew that Peter would deny Him, He still offered him the cup. Every single one of us has failed Jesus, but He still offers the cup.

Just like the disciples brought the filth of their world into the upper room on their dusty, sandaled feet, many times, we approach our own ‘upper room’ experience with Jesus … buried in our own filth. And just like Jesus needed to clean the mud off the disciple’s feet as they approached their seat at the table that night, Jesus offers that same cleansing to us today.

In the midst of a Global Plot, there is still room for Personal Worship.

Systems rise and fall, our Savior rules, and reigns. Systems are ever-changing, Our Savior is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Systems are temporary, our Savior is permanent.