“I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.” — John 10:10
There is a version of Christianity that most people have settled for, and it looks almost nothing like what Jesus described when He opened His mouth in John 10:10.
It is safe. It is comfortable. It is fine. And it is not what He came to give.
Jesus did not say, “I came that you might have a decent life — manageable, mostly peaceful, largely uneventful.” He said abundant. The Greek word is perissos — above and beyond, more than enough, overflow. This is not language for survival mode. This is language for a life that is full to the brim and running over.
So why do so many followers of Jesus live like they are in poverty when the inheritance has already been given?
Part of it is theology. We have been taught to defer abundance — to treat it as a future promise for heaven rather than a present reality for right now. And while there are things that belong to eternity, the abundant life Jesus describes is not entirely postponed. It begins now. It changes how you walk into Monday morning.
Part of it is unbelief — not the dramatic, crisis-of-faith kind, but the quiet, practical kind. The kind that prays but does not really expect anything. The kind that reads the promises and thinks, “That is for someone else, someone more spiritual, someone who has it more together than I do.”
And part of it is simply that nobody ever showed us what it looks like.
That is what I want to do. I have spent two decades traveling to churches and telling people the truth: God is not holding out on you. Jesus came to give, not to withhold. The thief is the one who steals and kills and destroys — that is the enemy’s job description. Jesus came to do the opposite.
If you have been living on less than what God promised, it is time to change that. Not by striving harder, but by believing bigger. The life He offered is still on the table. It has your name on it.
Start there. Today.
— Mike