Thought For Today

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 28th of October, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start in the Book of Ruth 2:12:
”The Lord repay your work, and a full reward be given you by the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings you have come for refuge.”
Then we go to Galatians 6:9, in the New Testament:
”And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.”
This is such a beautiful story, my dear friends. It has touched my heart very deeply this morning. When we think that Ruth, who was not a Jew, came back to Israel with her mother-in-law, Naomi, to look after her. Boaz noticed it, which is why she found favour with him. Not only did he favour her, but he eventually married her. Her husband had died, remember, and she was a widow and gave birth to a son, and that son went right down the lineage to Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the world. So Ruth is of the line of Jesus. We’re not talking about the fact that Jesus Christ came straight from Heaven, we know that, but He was born through the line of which Ruth had the privilege of being part of.
I want to say to you today, you must do something for someone who has no idea who you are, and has no idea how they got that blessing, so that the Lord Jesus Christ Himself can bless you for your good works. I’ve seen it before.
Let me give you an example: I went to the hairdresser the other day, and I had my hair cut, and as I got up to pay, he said, "It’s already been paid.” He said, “You know the man who was in the chair next to you?” I said, ”Yes.” He’s paid for your haircut.” I said, ”Where is he?” I wanted to thank him. He said, ”Look out the window. You see that blue BMW that’s just reversing out?” He said, ”That young man paid for your haircut.” Folks, that touched me so deeply because he didn’t even want me to know who he was and that is a blessing.
Today, do the same thing. Boaz saw what Ruth was doing for Naomi and because of that he blessed her. Not only did he bless her, he married her. Not only did he marry her, but she had a child from the line of David.
May God bless you as you do something today for someone who will never know it was you, except the Lord.
Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day. Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 27th of October, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We go straight to Galatians 2:20. Paul says:
“I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.”
I read the most beautiful little reading early this morning. It was written many, many years ago by a man named Phillips Brookes. He was an Episcopalian minister in America, and he said something quite profound. He said, "A man who lives in God knows no life except the life of God." Isn't that beautiful?
One of my heroes was a Zulu preacher from southern KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. He was just a young Zulu boy who herded his mother's cattle. He grew up and became a great preacher, a great man of God. He had a tremendous healing ministry as well - William Duma. William Duma was once invited by a group of Christians, with a few other pastors as well, just as a form of thanks for all the work he had done for the Lord - a trip to Israel, to the place where his beloved Saviour, Jesus Christ, lived and walked and died and rose again. The other pastors - there were a number of them - were overwhelmed, and immediately they said, “Thank you so kindly” - not William Duma. He said, "I am so honoured, I am so overwhelmed, but can I let you know tomorrow? I just have to get permission from my Lord, to go, tonight." The man who lives in God, knows no life but the life of God.
That relationship with God will stop you, sir, from falling into adultery, it will stop you, madam, from looking at other things except Jesus Christ. Young man, young lady, that relationship will stop you from getting involved in pornography on your cell phone, stop you from bending the rules, stop you from cheating because Christ in you is the hope of glory!
Have a wonderful day and give the Lord Jesus Christ full reign over your life today.
God bless you. Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus' precious name. It is Monday morning, the 26th of October, 2026 and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start in the book of Genesis 28:16. This is Jacob speaking.
Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it.”
Folks, the Lord is with you and me all the time, and we forget it so often, don't we? Then we go to Matthew 4:25.
Great multitudes followed Him - from Galilee, and from Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and beyond the Jordan.
Then we go to Mark 12:37
... And the common people heard Him gladly.
Our Lord, Jesus Christ, is the Lord of the common people, the man in the street. One of His titles is "the friend of sinners". I love that one. Yes, folks, He can be found everywhere. He can be found in the palaces of the kings of the world. But mostly you'll find in the Bible He was thronged by the ordinary working class, you could say. Now, I read this beautiful little reading in a small book by an unknown author. It's in Old English, so I'll try and paraphrase it as we go along.
The parish priest, a very sincere man, climbed up in the high church steeple
because he wanted to be nearer God that he might be able to hand down His word to the people.
And in sermon script, he wrote his sermons on a piece of paper daily,
what he thought was sent from heaven,
and then he dropped it down on the people's heads,
twice a day in seven.
In his age, God said to this parish priest,
Come down, come down from the steeple.
And he cried out from the steeple,
Where are you, Lord? He's trying to get as high as he can to heaven.
And the Lord replied, I'm down here among my people.
We don't have to look for the Lord in some special holy place. He is in amongst these people. And by the way, He's in your heart today.
Father God, I pray for my dear friend listening to this message, that he or she will remember that they don't have to go to Israel or to Britain or to America to find You. You are right here in his heart, her heart. Let us remember that.
In Jesus' Name, amen.
Have a wonderful day.
God bless you and goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Sunday morning, the 25th of October, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start in the Book of Galatians 1:12:
”For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came through the revelation of Jesus Christ.”
Then we go to 1 Corinthians 15:2:
”…if you hold fast that word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.”
The Lord is speaking to you and me today about holding fast to our faith. People are questioning the divinity of Jesus Christ. Oh, my dear friend, He’s more real to me than you listening to this message at the moment. You know that Jesus was seen by up to five hundred people after His resurrection, and then Paul says, ”and lastly by me.”
There might be one or two Thomas’ this morning listening to this message. “I’ll believe it when I see it. When I can put my fingers through the holes in His hands and His feet and my hand in His side where He was struck by the spear of the Roman soldier, then I’ll believe.” And at that time Jesus just stood right in front of Thomas. He didn’t open the door, He walked through the door and He said, ”Thomas.” And Thomas fell to his knees, ”My Lord and my God.” He said, “Thomas, you do well that you say that but blessed are those that come after you who haven’t seen me and still believe.”
It was like yesterday, I’ll never forget it, when I stood on the platform down in En Gedi and I’d been preaching about the rushing mighty wind that filled the upper room, when all the disciples were baptised in the Holy Spirit and began speaking in tongues. I was so overwhelmed by the whole affair - five thousand delegates from all over the world, eighty nations represented. I walked around the front of the lectern, and you can see it on YouTube - it’s there, and I said, Jesus. Please do it again.” And oh, my dear friend, He did it. The wind started blowing so hard it was blowing the equipment off the platform, and then it started to rain. It never rains down there, hardly ever. Jesus manifested Himself to five thousand of us, plus.
Today, never, ever doubt the reality that Jesus Christ is Lord of all, and He’s coming back soon.
Jesus bless you. Have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 24th of October, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start in the Old Testament, in the Book of Ruth 1:20:
"But she said to them, “Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.”
Then we go to the Book of Job 13:15:
”Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.”
Are you going through a very tough time at the moment? Are you feeling a bit bitter, maybe towards the Lord? Naomi left her country and went to stay in Moab with her husband and her two sons, and they married two girls, but Naomi’s husband and her two sons both died and left Naomi on her own with her two daughters-in-law. The one stayed in Moab, the other one followed Naomi back to Israel, and when she got home, people all greeted her. She said, ”Don’t call me Naomi because I’ve got nothing. I have lost everything.”
Maybe you’re there today? I was there. I remember it very clearly. I planted a beautiful crop of corn, of maize, but I made a terrible mistake. I got my plant population wrong. Instead of planting the seeds six inches apart they were coming up a foot apart. I thought I was ruined. They were so sparsely planted that I could walk through the maize crop in the early morning and not get any dew on my clothes, but oh folks, God is in control. I cried out to God just like Naomi did.
You know what happened with Naomi? Naomi’s daughter-in-law, Ruth, got remarried to Boaz. They had a child. His name was Obed. Obed was the father of Jesse, who was the father of King David, and that line goes right down to Jesus Christ. You talk about things changing - she was directly related to the King of Glory. Tragedy turned into an unbelievable victory. And for me, that year we had one of the worst droughts in the history of this district and the men that had planted their maize close together, like it should be, had no cobs because of the drought, but because of the spacing in my crop, I had massive cobs, and you get paid not by volume but by weight, and that year I had a bumper crop.
Today, you might be feeling a bit down. Maybe you feel bitter. Things are not going your way. I want to tell you, trust in the Lord like Job the farmer did. Even though He slay me, yet will I still trust Him, and God will turn your situation around. He’s done it so many times for me.
Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.