Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Alex Buabeng-Korsah

TOPIC: WHEN OBEDIENCE FEELS LIKE LOSS

THEME SCRIPTURE: "For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it."  — Mark 8:35 (NIV)

PREPARATORY QUESTIONS:

1. Can true obedience to God feel like loss?

Obedience to God doesn’t always feel like victory. Sometimes it feels like letting go of what you’ve built, what you’ve dreamed, what makes sense. Like Jeremiah, who preached faithfully but saw little fruit, or Abraham, who left everything familiar on a divine command, the obedient often appear foolish in the eyes of the world.

Yet it is in these very moments of seeming loss that heaven leans in.

When obedience costs you reputation, comfort, or influence—it’s not a sign of God’s absence. It’s evidence that you're living by a higher calling. As Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote, “When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.” But through death to self comes the resurrection power.

Think of David. He was anointed king but returned to the sheepfold. His obedience led him into caves, not palaces—yet God shaped him there. Or the early disciples who lost homes, freedom, and even their lives, yet turned the world upside down.

Your obedience may not yield instant results, applause, or clarity—but it always yields fruit in eternity. God sees. God remembers. God rewards.

So, when faithfulness feels like loss, trust God with the outcome. He alone turns sacrifice into legacy.

Remain blessed.

FURTHER READING:  Mark 8

Call to Salvation: Today is your day if you have not received salvation by turning over your life to Jesus Christ. Click here to do so.

QUESTION TO HELP YOU MEDITATE ON THE WORD

1. Where has obedience to God cost me something recently?

2. Am I trusting results, or trusting God?

3. What would it look like to obey fully, without conditions?

PRAYER

Lord, when obedience feels like letting go, help me remember that You never waste surrender. Teach me to walk by faith, not by sight. Help me to trust Your outcome more than my own plans. Strengthen me to obey, even when it feels like loss. In Jesus' precious name. Amen

One-Year Bible Reading Plan.

Psalm 71; 2 Peter 2; 2 Chronicles 10