Tuesday, 12th August 2025

Alex Buabeng-Korsah

TOPIC: STRUGGLING TO SURRENDER?

THEME SCRIPTURE: “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of My Father who is in heaven.” — Matthew 7:21 (ESV)

 

PREPARATORY QUESTIONS:

1. Who are those heaven delights in if indeed not all who call Lord, Lord will enter the kingdom of heaven?

It’s a painful reality: many people claim Jesus as “Lord” while quietly reserving parts of their life from His rule. Especially in youth, the temptation to delay full surrender is powerful. “I’ll follow Jesus later—after I’ve had my fun.” But Jesus never offered a partial-following option.

His call is radical: deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow Me (luke 9:23). 

Delaying obedience is disobedience. A “good person” without Christ is still lost. The early church father Cyprian said, “No one can have God for his Father who does not have the Church for his mother.” And no one truly belongs to the Church without repentance and lordship.

Paul warned in 2 Timothy 4:3–4 that in the last days, people would gather teachers who tell them only what they want to hear—words that soothe but never save.

True love doesn’t flatter; it confronts. Sin is not simply bad behavior—it is rebellion. And habitual sin, excused under the banner of “God understands,” reveals a heart that has not bowed to His kingship. Augustine wrote, “If you believe what you like in the gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.”

But here is the grace: if you’re alive and reading this, you still have time to respond.

Christ doesn’t call you to perfection, but to surrender. You may struggle—but surrender invites the Spirit’s power to overcome. What He rejects is the heart that plans to continue sinning under the illusion of grace.

Today make a decisive move to surrender to your Lord and your life today and the rest ahead of you will never be the same.

Remain blessed.

FURTHER READING – Matthew 7

QUESTIONS TO HELP YOU MEDITATE ON THE WORD:

1. Have I truly made Jesus Lord of every part of my life?

2. Is there any area I am delaying obedience in, hoping for “later”?

3. Do I view grace as power to overcome sin—or an excuse to stay in it?

PRAYER

Lord Jesus, I don’t want to play games with You. Expose every excuse I’ve made to delay full surrender. I repent of every hidden rebellion and partial obedience. I receive Your Spirit to walk in Your will—today, not someday. From today, my life is matching Your Name, in truth and in deed. In Jesus’ precious name. Amen!

One-Year Bible Reading Plan

Psalm 64, James 4, 2 Chronicles 2