I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 16th of October, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in the Book of John 1:17:

”For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.”

Oh folks, what an incredible promise from God - grace!

What is grace? Young man, young lady, you might ask, “What is grace?” Well, the definition of grace is undeserved loving kindness or unmerited favour. We can’t earn it, we can’t buy it, it is free! It is given to us by our Heavenly Father through His Son, Jesus Christ.

The most famous scripture verse in the whole Bible is John 3:16:

”For God so loved the world (you and me) that He gave His only begotten Son, (only one, no other) that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”

What a promise!

When I became a new Christian, it was a long time ago, not far off fifty years ago, I remember one day walking through my maize crop and I was carrying all the burdens of the world on my shoulders. I felt totally unworthy to receive such a gift from God. I had just given my life to Jesus, and then the penny dropped. The Lord impressed upon my heart, “You’ve given your life to me, you’ve given your family to me, you’ve given your farming business to me. So now I am in control and you are purely a manager.” You know, you cannot believe how the weight fell off my shoulders. As they say, the penny dropped, my eyes were opened. I realised what grace was all about.

We can’t earn our way to heaven. Yes, we have the Ten Commandments as I shared just recently, and they are to be obeyed, but they cannot be obeyed without the grace of God and I was free. So if a storm came over and destroyed my maize, which was my only source of income in those days, “That was fine, Lord, what have You got next for me?” If I had sick child, I would pray for the child and leave the child in God’s hand, so that the absolute responsibility was passed on to Jesus Christ.

When He died on the cross He said, ”It is finished.” Everything is completed. Now, what we need to do is go out and tell the world that Jesus has paid for all our sin. All we have to do is to believe that He has done it and to wait for His soon coming.

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day,
Goodbye.

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.

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.