Thought For Today

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 1st of April, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start in the Book of Acts 5:42:
“And daily in the temple, and in every house, they did not cease teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.”
That is just after they had been given a severe beating and told by the High Priest not to mention the name of Jesus Christ again. And what happened? They went straight out and they were rejoicing and they started to tell the people about their beloved Saviour.
When was the last time that you and I stood up in public and said, “I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ for it is the power of salvation to those who believe, first the Jew, then the Gentile”? Romans 1:16, and then that beautiful scripture that you find in Romans 5:3:
“…but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, hope.”
Oh folks, we need to speak it out! I will never forget preaching in the Eastern Cape, many years ago. I love those farmers down there, and at half time I decided to shoot into the bathroom and an old farmer came in. He said to me, “Young boy, when you preach, you don’t have to sweat so much.” (In other words, “you don’t have to try so hard.”) I said, “Oh sir” I said, “Wait for the second half. You haven’t heard anything yet!”
There is nothing like perseverance, there is nothing like persecution, to get you to stand up for the Lord. Look what is happening in the persecuted church in the eastern part of the world. We think of Iran, the amount of people who are coming to Christ. We think of China. These are the places where people are not ashamed of the Gospel. They are dying for their faith.
I have decided to follow Jesus,
I have decided to follow Jesus,
I have decided to follow Jesus,
No turning back, praise the Lord, no turning back.
If you can’t say it, whistle it, but do something!
Jesus bless you today as you speak it out.
Bye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 31st of March, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start in Philippians 3:12:
“Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me.”
What a beautiful scripture! Then the next one just to confirm it, is found in the Book of Hebrews 12:1:
“Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,…”
Oh my dear friend, there is no stopping now, no ways! There is no resting, but rather we are pressing on towards our eternal home in Heaven. You say I cannot take it anymore. The road is too hard, it is too steep, it is too narrow, it is too stony. Keep on keeping on. Do not allow any distractions to hold you back. I am thinking of the mighty Comrades Marathon - 90 odd kilometres. When you're tired, and the heat is bearing down on you and those hills are looking absolutely impossible to run over, you say to yourself, “I can’t anymore”. And then what happens? A courtesy vehicle rides up, and lovely coffee, the door opens and the people inside say, ‘Look, you are looking very tired. Don’t you want to stop?” But you know what happens, when you step into that vehicle, they take the number off your chest and you are disqualified. The race is over for you.
Do not stop. Do not let that vehicle tempt you to throw in the towel. Then you carry on, and you carry on, and then all of a sudden you come up next to a beautiful shady tree on the side of the road, and you feel, “If I just sit down for a minute and have a rest I’ll be fine.” Don’t do it because you will never get up again. Keep on running the race which the Lord is running with you. You are not running on your own. Keep your eye on the finish line and never look back and I want to tell you, you will make it to the end.
There is a cloud of witnesses waiting for you at the finish line, all your loved ones who have gone before you. They are clapping. Keep running, you are nearly there, and the worst thing of course is to look behind you. When you look behind you, you normally don’t finish the race. Keep your eyes fixed on Jesus and He will see you through.
Have a wonderful day, keep running the race and remember if Christ is for you, there is no man who will stand against you.
Jesus bless you and goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Monday morning, the 30th of March, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start in the Book of Isaiah 8:10:
“…God is with us.”
Isn’t that a beautiful comfort to know? And then we go to Romans 8:31:
“If God is for us, who can be against us?”
Isn’t that a beautiful reassurance?
Lastly, we go to Acts 5:39. You see, what had happened was that the High Priest and his people were trying to persecute Peter and the apostles, and there was a tremendous fight going on. Then there was a wise man amongst the elders. His name was Gamaliel. When they were arguing about whether we should put them to death or put them in jail? And of course, the jail couldn’t hold them! Gamaliel said to them, to all the elders and the High Priest in Acts 5:39:
‘…if it is of God, you cannot overthrow it—lest you even be found to fight against God.”
We need to give people a chance. We need to give them an opportunity to prove themselves. If it is of God, it will work. If it is not of God, it will fail anyway.
You see, I am a farmer. We’ll have a newborn calf. It may not be the prettiest of all the calves, but give it a chance to grow, and it will surprise you. If you are a fruit farmer, doesn’t the Bible say leave that tree for the fourth year before you start to reap it for commercial use. We have a little school that is part of us here, this school has a headmaster, not so young anymore, but he has been with us for many, many years and sometimes I would go to him and say, “I really believe we need to give this young man an opportunity. He has failed, but we need to give him a chance.” And the headmaster would say to me, “Just leave him for a couple of years and let’s see the kind of fruit that he produces.” Wise man!
I want to say to you today, maybe it is your son, maybe it is your daughter and you don’t know what to do because you are trusting that they are going to change, but they don’t seem to be changing, give them an opportunity. That employee, don’t just write him off. Give him a chance to prove himself and he might end up as your best worker. Let’s be like Gamaliel today. Let us not be so quick to cut the tree down, to sell the calf, to write that child off. Let us give them an opportunity to prove themselves and you know something, nine times out of ten, with lots of prayer and love, they will surprise us.
Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day,
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Sunday morning, the 29th of March, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start in Numbers 23:8:
“How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? And how shall I denounce whom the Lord has not denounced?”
Then we go to verse 20. This is now Balaam speaking to Balak, his king:
“Behold, I have received a command to bless; He has blessed, and I cannot reverse it.”
Wow! The king, Balak, wanted Balaam to curse the Children of Israel, but he had a direction from God, not to curse God’s people, but to bless them.
Today, we want to speak clearly about being a light in a world that is full of negativity and negative talk. In Matthew 5:14, the Lord Jesus says: “You are the light of the world.” We are not called to curse but rather to be a blessing to people. If you have nothing good to say about somebody, rather don’t say anything at all.
I want to tell you a story about two young boys who live in the United States of America. Their mother spoke life over those two boys. They had no father, she was a single parent. She worked in a restaurant. I think she held down a couple of jobs to keep these young boys at school. She told them that they had to learn. She spoke life into them. The one became a mechanical engineer, I believe, and the other one became one of the top neurosurgeons, that’s a brain surgeon, in the world. His name is Dr Ben Carson. He led a team of surgeons, the first known in the world, to separate siamese twins who had been joined at the back of the head, and they both lived. Why? Because of a mother who spoke life and blessing over her two young sons.
She was an uneducated lady herself, but she knew Jesus Christ and she persevered with Him. Today, let us be a blessing. Let us not be a curse. If we have nothing good to say, don’t say anything. Let us rather start speaking life and not death. That is what Balaam said. He said to the king, “I cannot curse God’s people.” We cannot curse people, folks, we have got to bless them and pray for them and see the good in them, and Jesus Christ will turn the situation around.
God bless you and have a wonderful day,
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 28th of March, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We go to the Song of Solomon 2:15:
“Catch us the foxes, The little foxes that spoil the vines, For our vines have tender grapes.”
Beware of little foxes - I read this from the great man of God, James Hudson Taylor, who took the Gospel of Jesus Christ, as a young man, by himself, to China. They said he spoke Mandarin better than any other missionary in China. He was a great and very humble man of God. He was responsible for sending something like a thousand families to China to preach the Gospel, and he had no source of income. No missionary organisation sent him. He went on his own, and he told his people, “Beware of little foxes.”
What are we talking about? We are talking about those little compromises that we have with the world. That’s right, just one small drink won’t harm anybody, and that is how the alcoholic gets started. Just one small smoke of marijuana and that is how you could become a drug addict. Just one small indulgence with a woman could be the beginning of the end of your marriage. That little voice that said, “Oh, it’s not so bad. You don’t have to really pay that account. Just leave it, and it will go away.” “You don’t have to pay the taxman, I mean, the taxman does nothing for you.” The law requires that we obey everything. The fruit is eventually spoiled if you continue to allow these little foxes to contaminate your crop, whatever it might be. I know this as a farmer.
We have to be on the job. We cannot allow any form of infection or disease to come in amongst our animals. We have to be diligent in everything we do, and if we do that, then God promises us that we will have a bountiful crop.
Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.