Our Daily Devotion - "All means All"

Our Daily Devotion - "All Means All" “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” - Romans 3:23 (ESV)

There’s a quiet honesty in Scripture that doesn’t leave room for comparison. Romans 3:23 doesn’t sort people into categories. It doesn’t rank sins or hand out moral scorecards. It uses one word that levels the ground completely:

All.

That word has a way of humbling us if we let it. Because most of us are tempted to measure sin horizontally—mine against yours. We notice what’s loud, public, or unfamiliar. We excuse what’s private, familiar, or wrapped in good intentions.

That’s why I said earlier today in my quote of the day—and I stand by it: “I choose not to hate others because their sin doesn’t look like mine.”

Romans 3:23 reminds us that the difference between us isn’t innocence—it’s honesty.
Some sins shout.
Some sins whisper.
Some hide behind respectability, tradition, or silence. But they all fall short of the same glory.

This verse doesn’t excuse sin. It exposes pride.

It reminds us that no one stands before God because they behaved better, believed earlier, or failed quieter. We stand because grace reached us where we were—and didn’t wait for us to clean ourselves up first.

When we remember that, hatred loses its footing. Judgment softens into discernment and mercy becomes less of a struggle, because we realize how much of it we’ve already received.

If God dealt with us based on comparison, none of us would last long.

But He deals with us based on grace.

Romans 3:23 leaves no room for superiority, only surrender. When we remember that all of us fall short, hatred loses its voice and humility takes its place. The ground at the foot of the Cross has always been level, and grace has never been handed out based on how well we compare ourselves to others. I choose mercy—not because sin doesn’t matter, but because grace mattered first.