Am I good enough?

Am I good enough?

Bible: Matthew 7 : 21 – 23

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Not everyone who says to me, “Lord, Lord,” will enter the kingdom of heaven (V.21).

You’re chilling after school, watching TV at home alone. There’s a knock on the door. So you get up and open it. On the doorstep is someone you don’trecognise—you’ve never seen them before in your life. They say “Hi.” You reply, “Um, hello?”

They look at you like they’re waiting for something. You wonder what’s going on. After a long, weird pause, they finally ask, “Well, are you going to let me in?” And you say . . .

You probably say, “No way! I don’t know you!” Because you don’t just let random strangers into your home. Heaven is a bit like that. It’s God’s home! So getting into heaven isn’t about what you’ve done or what you know. It is about who you know.

Jesus told people, “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven [God’s home] . . . I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you’” (MATTHEW 7:21-23).

If we’re trying to be ‘good enough’ to get to heaven, we’ll never get there. There’s no way into heaven without choosing to trust Jesus personally. Knowing about Him won’t be enough. We can’t get in on our own. We can’t gate-crash. We can’t buy tickets. We can’t sit an exam. We’ve got to know the person who lives there for ourselves.

JESUS WILL NEVER LET US INTO HIS HOME IF WE’RE STRANGERS TO HIM.

Youth Edition – Our Daily Bread Ministries