I Surrender All. Part [14] 03/02/2026 (Morning thought)

Exodus 32:6 And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

As time progresses, and fallen nature begins to chomp at the bits, they often let loose, and they often party harder than persons who were brought up in a non-believing household. That is what you get when you promise God to do the right thing. It’s not your promise, it’s God’s promise to you that would keep you from falling. Therefore, much more emphasis should be placed on what God does than what we do. Back then, the Hebrews promised God that all that God said, they will do, and be obedient.

That is, until their fallen human nature let loose in the party, at the foot of mount Sinai.  If you saw them that day, you wouldn’t believe they were the same folks you saw so reverent in church last week. Thus, the Bible makes a clear statement on any attempts to change, and heal ourselves from the stings of the serpent. Basically, in a nutshell, not happening on our own. The real you, and the real me mostly comes to the surface in spontaneous situations.

Not in those well scripted moments when we say, and do right things which we have read in the Bible. The real you is not the person who has carefully thought about what to say. It is the person that becomes manifest in words and actions that are mostly reflex. The real Peter was the person that surfaced on the spur of the moment, when things spiraled out of control suddenly. That is what Christ was warning Peter about, for satan was going for the jugular.

John 18:24 Now Annas had sent him bound unto Caiaphas the high priest. 25 And Simon Peter stood and warmed himself. They said therefore unto him, Art not thou also one of his disciples? He denied it, and said, I am not.

May The Lord add His blessing to the study of His word. God bless!

I Surrender All. Part [13] 03/02/2026 (Evening thought)

Jeremiah 13:23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.

Frustrations often come about as a result of trying to do God’s work for Him. When folks attempt to do God’s work, they might, at times meet with some semblance of success and this is because they know what is the right thing to do. But surrendering your all to Christ goes much deeper than merely knowing and doing the right thing. When the Christian does that which is right from a mere knowledge of what is right, he will have some good days.

But he will also have a lot of frustrating days, when he comes up short. And, furthermore, when he does have some good days, he will be in grave danger of feeling good about himself. Peter had some good days, and yet, it was when he was feeling good, and confident that Jesus warned him that satan desired to shred him like wheat. The prophet Isaiah also had many good days, until God revealed to him that he was a man of unclean lips.

Some Christians may mistake good behavior for the righteousness God alone can offer. A well-behaved person isn’t necessarily a Christian, for there are a lot of decent, well-dressed devils, walking around nowadays. Thus, it has to be forever settled in the Christian’s mind that no amount of doing, on your own, would bring about a change in the heart. Young people in our churches often get frustrated with the Christian way, by trying to do the right things they have read of in the Bible, on their own.

John 15:4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can you, except you abide in me.

May God add His blessing to the study of His word. “Good night” and God bless!