The woman caught in adultery receives her fresh start from Jesus, but she is not the only character in that Biblical account that we can learn from. I love how Scripture comes alive and God says something fresh each time we read it; because the Holy Spirit knows what we need to be learning at any given moment. Today I saw three characters in John 8 and realized that I could be any of the three in the story.
The first one I saw is not named specifically, but as I pictured the scene unfolding in my mind I saw him...he was the last man standing. He held the stone the longest and was the last person to walk away. We know that he was one of the younger people (John 8:9). We know that he was willing to cast a stone at another for their sin. We know that he did not stay to receive the grace of Jesus, but stayed the longest in order to extend judgment and condemnati ...
