I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 25th of July, 2024, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan with a thought for today.

We start with the Book of Luke 6:46:

"But why do you call Me 'Lord, Lord,' and not do the things which I say?"

It is not about doing, it's about being. It's about a personal relationship with Jesus. We cannot earn our way to Heaven. If that was the case, people from other religions would get there long before us! In Isaiah 64:6, the Lord says all our righteousness is like filthy rags in the sight of God. That is quite a statement. I want to say to you this morning, dad, your son wants you to spend more time with him, he doesn't want what you can buy for him, he doesn't want all the fancy goodies that you can get him, he wants you, he wants to spend time with you. Mom, your daughter wants to spend time with you. It's not what you can do for her, but she wants to spend time with you because she loves you and she needs you. And so is it with Jesus Christ - He created us to have fellowship with Him. He doesn't need us, He wants us. Remember, the whole of creation took place with one word. He doesn't need any man, but He desires to have fellowship with us.

We really need to spend more time with the Lord every morning. We need to sit and talk with Him and let Him talk to us in our spirit. You say, "I can't hear Him." No, you can't hear Him because you are too busy doing things, maybe even for Him. So sit down, be quiet, and let's have fellowship together. "Let's have a cup of tea together," the Lord says.

So today, make a point to spend quality and quantity time with Jesus, and you will find everything else will start to fall into line.

God bless you richly and have a wonderful day with your personal Saviour,
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 24th of July, 2024, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in the Gospel of Luke 19:8:

"Then Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, "Look, Lord, I give half of my goods to the poor; and if I have taken anything from anyone by false accusation, I restore fourfold."

Then we go to the Gospel of Matthew 7:20, Jesus says:

"Therefore by their fruits you will know them."

Zacchaeus was a scoundrel. He was a thief. He was like the mafia; he and his friends were stealing money from their own people. You couldn't get anybody worse than that. But what happened? Salvation came to his house.

"Today salvation has come to this house,…"
Luke 19:9

We need to bear fruits worthy of repentance. What does that mean? Well mother, if your husband has had an affair with another woman and he comes back and asks forgiveness of you and says he made a terrible mistake, you must forgive him, but that man must bear fruit worthy of repentance. He must never be seen with any other woman, he must never ever be seen to text another woman, to phone - no! There must be fruits. He must repent completely.

That man who has become a Christian but was a thief, yes, he stole from his partner, he stole from the company, but now he has given his life to the Lord, there must be restitution. Now, what does "restitution" mean? According to the Oxford Dictionary, it means "The restoration of something lost or stolen, back to its proper owner." That's what it means. When He had healed or forgiven somebody, Jesus often said, "Go and sin no more, your sins are forgiven." In other words, "Go and bear fruits worthy of repentance."

Remember Charles Colson? He was called "the hatchet man." He was President Nixon's righthand man. He went to jail in the place of Richard Nixon. He was such an otherwise kind of a person, Colson. They said he would walk over his own mother's grave to get what he wanted. But what happened? - 180 degree turn around in prison. He became a born-again Christian. He started the Prison Fellowship. For the rest of his life, he was one of God's greatest ambassadors. There has got to be a change. Yes, we must forgive; of course, we must, but there also must be a complete turn-around.

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day,
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It’s Tuesday morning, the 23rd of July, 2024, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start off in the Book of Matthew 7:13-14:

“Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.”

There is no shortcut into the kingdom of God. There’s no quick fix, there’s no bending the rules. It’s not a case of, “Well I’ll just wing it.” You can’t wing it and you can’t cheat when it comes to the things of God. It’s like an engineer who bribed somebody to forge his qualifications, then all of a sudden he has got a degree in engineering. He gets the job but he can’t produce because he doesn’t know what he’s doing and he ends up jobless. I really want to encourage that young student who is studying. Do not cheat, but work hard and get a degree that is worthwhile, and then go into the world; you’ll be sought after.

Like that young lady who’s trying to buy her driving license. There are many people that will give you a forged driving license if you pay them enough money, but what happens when you get into the motorcar and you don’t know how to drive it? Disaster!

Titus 1:16 says:

“They profess to know God, but in works they deny Him,…”

They say they love Jesus but by their actions, they deny Him. We need to go through the narrow gate because thats the one that will lead us eventually to eternal life.

Jesus bless you and have a lovely day,

Goodbye.