December 6 — "Jesus Outwrites All of Humanity"

Today's Reading: John 21

If you could stroll into the grandest library on earth, pile up every biography, every encyclopedia, every journal ever penned onto one endless shelf, you’d still barely scratch the surface of Jesus. That’s exactly what John hints at when he closes his Gospel with a line that sounds like holy exaggeration—but isn’t. “I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books” of all He did.

Picture it. Every book in existence. Back in Christ’s day, the entire literary output of humanity fit inside a few libraries. Historians estimate roughly 500,000 scrolls existed—total. Not books as we know them, but fragile, hand‑copied manuscripts tucked away in places like Alexandria, Pergamum, or Rome’s archives. Most towns had none. The average home had zero. To ancient ears, John’s words boomed like thunder: “Jesus is greater than the entire intellectual output of mankind.”

Fast‑forward to 2010, Google Books estimated about 129,864,880 distinct titles worldwide… still not enough. Each year, another 2.2 million new titles appear… still not enough. All the ink in the world… still too little. All the pages ever printed… still impossibly thin to carry the weight of who He is.

John’s point is clear: Jesus is inexhaustible. For every miracle recorded, a thousand more went unwritten. For every conversation captured, countless others rippled quietly through time. For every heart changed on the pages of the Bible, multitudes more were transformed in ways known only to Heaven. The Gospels aren’t the full portrait—they’re the frame around an infinite Person.

Think about it: if the world itself can’t contain the books, what does that say about the Savior they would describe? It means He cannot be boxed into your categories, your assumptions, your limits, or your past. It means the Jesus you know today is only the tiniest sliver of the Jesus you’ll know tomorrow. It means there will always be more mercy in Him than sin in you, more wisdom in Him than confusion in you, more strength in Him than fear in you.

And here’s the wild twist: the God who could fill every book ever written has chosen to write one of His greatest chapters about you. Paul says we are “letters… written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God.” You are not a footnote; you are a living volume in the ongoing library of grace. Every act of obedience, every whispered prayer, every moment you trust Him when you cannot see—He is writing something eternal.

So come to Him humbly today. Turn the next page. Let Him keep surprising you. Let Him keep authoring chapters only He could imagine.

May the Lord open your eyes to the unending riches of Christ, fill your heart with wonder, and inscribe His goodness across every line of your life. May your story bear His signature with joy and strength.