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Be Humble
I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 15th of October, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of John 1:15: “John bore witness of Him and cried out, saying, “This was He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me is preferred before me, for He was before me.’ ” (John the Baptist talking about Jesus Christ). Then we go to the Gospel of Matthew 18:4: “Therefore whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.”We are talking today about humility. I have heard humility described as controlled strength. A humble person doesn’t have to be a soft person. What do they say about Moses? They said the softest part of Moses was his teeth! If you don’t understand what I am saying, young person, ask your dad. He will tell you. He was a tough man to lead the whole nation through the desert for forty years. John the Baptist, there was nothing soft about him, but the amazing thing is, Jesus says, ”There has never been a man born from the womb of a woman, greater than John the Baptist.” What a compliment, coming from the Master!I want to tell you a little story. I read a book called, “Take Your glory Lord.” It was the life story of a Zulu pastor who lived down in the South Coast of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa. His name was William Duma. He was an extremely anointed preacher and had a wonderful healing ministry. He was invited up into Zambia, to preach at a Baptist churc,h and the church was packed on that Sunday morning. They were all waiting to hear the word of God from this man from South Africa, and he was late! 9 o’clock came and there was no sign of him. The pastor of the church was worried. He thought, “I will just have to pull one of my sermons out of my top pocket” because he just wasn’t coming. Then all of a sudden, he heard a knock-knock through the curtain that separated the back door, where the cleaning lady would come in and where everything was stored. He went through the curtain, opened the door and there was the man of God, standing at the servant’s entrance - humility!Today, go out and be humble. Be humble, prefer your fellowman to yourself. Don’t forget the older people. Don’t forget to take care of the young children, and Jesus Christ will do the rest!God bless you and goodbye.
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The Ten Commandments
I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 14th of October, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go straight to the Book of Exodus 20:1-17:“God spoke all these words:I am God, your God,who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of a life of slavery.No other gods, only me.No carved gods of any size, shape, or form of anything whatever, whether of things that fly or walk or swim. Don’t bow down to them and don’t serve them because I am God, your God, and I’m a most jealous God, punishing the children for any sins their parents pass on to them to the third, and yes, even to the fourth generation of those who hate me. But I am unswervingly loyal to the thousands who love me and keep my commandments.No using the name of God, your God, in curses or silly banter; God won’t put up with the irreverent use of his name.Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Work six days and do everything you need to do. But the seventh day is a Sabbath to God, your God. Don’t do any work—not you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your servant, nor your maid, nor your animals, not even the foreign guest visiting in your town. For in six days God made Heaven, Earth, and sea, and everything in them; he rested on the seventh day. Therefore God blessed the Sabbath day; he set it apart as a holy day.Honor your father and mother so that you’ll live a long time in the land that God, your God, is giving you.No murder.No adultery.No stealing.No lies about your neighbour.No lusting after your neighbour’s house—or wife or servant or maid or ox or donkey. Don’t set your heart on anything that is your neighbour’s.”These are the Ten Commandments and I’ve read them to you through the Message Bible version, and then I can hear somebody say, ”I am a New Covenant man. These don’t apply to me anymore.” Oh, my dear friend, listen to me, they do. They apply to every one of us. If you look at the Gospel of Matthew 5:17:“Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.”Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day, Goodbye.
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From the Beginning
I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Monday morning, the 13th of October, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go to the Gospel of John 1:1-4: ”In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God (that’s Jesus), and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.” Wow, I just love that scripture folks! You have no idea how much I love that Scripture! That’s why I love the Bible so much, because Jesus Christ is the Word and when somebody says to you, ”Show me this Jesus you’re always talking about, I can’t see Him,” give him a Bible because Jesus is the Word. I want to say to the younger people, this Big Bang theory, it doesn’t hold anything at all. It’s a lie, I’m telling you, a lie from the pit of hell! They’ll tell you that this whole beautiful universe of ours started by some chemical explosion. I want you to ask them a question, ”Who made the chemical explosion?” And they’ll say to you, ”And how can you prove that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.” You can say, ”Because the Bible tells me, “In the beginning…” He was there in the beginning with His Father.” So that holds a lot more water than talking about some big explosion. In the beginning, “I Am” was there. He’s always been there and He always will be there.Now, I’m not a scientist, no, no, I’m a farmer, but I want to tell you, I defy any scientist to prove to me. We’ll go for a walk into the field and I’ll show him spring. It’s spring here on the farm at Shalom and the leaves are coming out on the trees that have been dormant right through the winter. I see a newborn calf, I see the wild animals are breeding at the moment, it’s a wonderful time of the year, but every season is a wonderful time of the year. You know why? Because Jesus made it all. He made it all, from the beginning.So, Jesus bless you today as you celebrate the wonderful truth that in the beginning was the Word and His name is Jesus Christ.God bless you and have a wonderful day,Goodbye.
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His Word
I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Sunday morning, the 12th of October, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Isaiah 55:11:”So shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth; It shall not return to me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.” Then we go to the Gospel of Matthew 5:9:”Blessed are the peacemakers, For they shall be called the sons of God.”Now I want to tell you a little story and I want you to hear my heart here. I’m not talking about myself or our team, I’m talking about the word of God. This little “Thought for Today”, which has been going for almost six years, is played every morning in police stations, in front of all the constables when they are standing at ease, oh, yes, I’ve seen the videos, they’ve sent them to me. At school assemblies, before work starts, at Bible colleges, which is a great honour for me, every morning. In hospitals, in wards, and we give all the glory to Jesus Christ. The word of God never returns void. It always accomplishes that which it is sent for, and of course, the peace makers. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the sons of God. The other night, a beautiful family came and stayed with us - three young boys, their mom, and their dad. We were having supper together, and the mother said, ”I just want to tell you that I play the 'Thought for Today' every morning when I take the children to school. She said, ”They always used to fight. You know how they fight, “I want to sit at the door. It’s my turn now.” Yes, we know. I had five of my own. She said now that she puts on the “Thought for Today” every morning, there is absolute quietness in the motorcar. That means more to me than anything. So we want to give Jesus Christ all the praise, honour and glory because His Word brings peace wherever it is spoken.Jesus bless you, have a lovely day and send that little message out as far and as wide as you can. Goodbye.
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Do It With Might
I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 11th of October, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. If we go to the Book of Ecclesiastes 9:10: ”Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might,…” Whatever you do!A friend came to see me and gave me a little booklet. It’s called “The Practice of the Presence of God”, by a monk who lived over 300 years ago. His name was Brother Lawrence. He was a Frenchman, and this book has really impacted me. This man was just a monk in a monastery, he was nothing special, but he had the presence of God in his life all the time. He was actually the cook in the monastery and he would be cooking in the kitchen and while he was cooking he was praying, and he had the presence of the Lord in him so whatever he did, whether it was cooking, washing the dishes (by the way, he also mended sandals for the other monks in the monastery although he himself always walked barefoot) but he continually had the Presence of God in his life. So he would be cooking in the kitchen and a group of other monks would be there asking him questions, ”What about this?” and “What about that?” And he managed to do it all together. Now I’m thinking of mothers today. You are struggling to get the sandwiches made for the children for school, trying to organise dad’s clothes, and wondering, ”When am I going to have my quiet time?” Well, Brother Lawrence had a quiet time 24/7, so there is no excuse for us. You and I can do exactly the same as Brother Lawrence. We can condition ourselves, discipline our hearts and minds, and think about heavenly things, praying and singing as we do our work!Whether you are working in a garage, fixing a motorcar, you’ll find the customer might be standing by and asking you questions, ”Why have you got so much peace in your heart? Why are you always happy?” A doctor - what an opportunity when someone is not well, to be able to encourage them with the Word of God, not so much by preaching but just by the presence of the Lord in your heart.Today, use every opportunity that you have to speak to others about the blessed Lord Jesus Christ, and you don’t have to be a preacher. You just have to do your work and to do it well and God will do the rest.Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day, Goodbye.
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