At the moment I don’t feel too smart. I just got off the wrong plane that took me to the wrong city and left me at the wrong airport. I went east instead of west and ended up in Houston instead of Denver.

It didn’t look like the wrong plane, but it was. I walked through the wrong gate, dozed off on the wrong flight, and ended up in the wrong place.

Paul says we’ve all done the same thing. Not with airplanes and airports but with our lives and God. He tells the Roman readers,

“There is none righteous, no, not one (Rom. 3:10).”
“All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Rom 3:23).”

We are all on the wrong plane, he says. All of us. Gentile and Jew. Every person has taken the wrong turn. And we need help… The wrong solutions are pleasure and pride (Rom. 1 and 2); the correct solution is Christ Jesus (Rom. 3:21-26).

The Inspirational Study Bible
Max Lucado

I’ve been reading Max Lucado’s “Grace For The Moment” every day for the last several months. It is an excellent devotional and I invite you to pick up a copy for your own quiet time. In the future, I hope to leave my own retrospect on the devotional. Feel free to leave your own reply below.