The Sermon on the Mount (Mt. 5-7) is the great equalizer. We are all murderers. We are all adulterers. But embracing meekness, humility, mercy, peace-making, purity, starving for righteousness and living such that you are vulnerable to persecution submits your soul—your mind, will, and emotions—to the Potter’s hand as He conforms us into the image of the One slaughtered at the Place of the Skull, who “made Himself of no reputation” and served His enemies with costly access to a life we didn’t earn and don’t deserve.

“So you shall be perfect, as your Father in heaven is perfect.”

-Stephanie Quick