Thought For Today

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Sunday morning, the 31st of May, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We go to Mark 8:36:
”For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?” Or we can say, “family”.
I want to speak to you about legacy. What are we leaving behind for our children when we go on to be with the Lord? I want to say to you. I say this with sadness, it wasn’t so long ago I was asked to go and speak to a family where the patriarch, the old man of the family, was very ill. A mighty, wonderful servant of the Lord, an extremely hard-working man who has literally built up an empire of business, and he is leaving it to his family. Now he has an extensive family.
I went and spoke to the whole family, but as they collected me at the airport to take me to the mansion where he is living, some of his family said to me, ”We need to tell you something. There’s been a lot of jealousy, a lot of unhappiness in the family with regard to whom is going to get what, when it comes to inheritance.” Now the old man is not even dead and already they are arguing and fighting. One of his sons actually said to me, and he was very, very sad about it, that he has already been taken to court by one of the family because of money matters or inheritance matters. It should not be like this. It is very, very sad, and unfortunately, this is not an isolated case. I have the privilege of knowing many influential people, and many a time, the old gentleman and his dear wife, who have literally built up a fortune through hard work, through trusting the Lord, through investing wisely, but the children are not carrying on the legacy. They are wanting their part of the inheritance even before their parents have died.
Let us be so careful to leave a good inheritance for the children’s sake, not for our sake. Teach them the word of God, teach them the principles of Jesus, teach them about the Lord, teach them that it is better to give than to receive. Teach them about their eternal inheritance they’ll receive when they go to Heaven, and then, by the grace of God, when we do go home, we will know that our family is in the hands of God and that the Bible is the ultimate authority for giving out your wealth to your loved ones.
Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 30th of May, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start in John 15:5. Jesus says:
”…without Me you can do nothing.”
Then we go to Philippians 4:13 which says:
”I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”
Now, if you look at the photo that I’ve put on this Thought For Toay, you’ll see the cover of my new Bible which was given to me by a publishing house and I really esteem and thank them.
I looked up a beautiful reading by a wonderful man of God who lived a while back. His name is F.B. Meyer, a man of God, and he says, and I quote, ”Apart from Him…” That’s Jesus, ”…we can do nothing. While we are abiding in Him, nothing is impossible. The one purpose of our life should therefore be to remain in living and intense union with Jesus, guarding against everything that would break it, employing every means of cementing and enlarging it, and just in proportion as we do so, we shall find His strength flowing into us for every possible emergency.” Isn’t that beautiful? “We may not feel it’s presence but we shall find it present whenever we begin to draw on it. There is no temptation that we cannot master. There is no tribulation which we cannot patiently bear. There is no difficulty with which we cannot cope, no work which we cannot perform. There is no confession or testimony which we cannot make if only our souls are living in healthy union with Jesus Christ. For as our day or hour, so shall our strength be.” Isn’t that beautiful?
So today remember there is nothing which you cannot do if you are spending your time with Jesus Christ.
Have a wonderful day.
Jesus bless you and goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Friday morning, the 29th of May, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We go to the Book of Exodus 31:18:
“He gave Moses two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God.”
Then we go to the Gospel of John 8:6:
“But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with His finger, as though He did not hear.”
What was Jesus writing on the ground? Well, people have spoken about that for centuries. No-one actually knows but isn’t it God-incidental that His Father also wrote on the tablets of stone with His finger? Can you imagine - burnt into stone? Oh my friend, how desperately do we need something like that in this world where nothing is honourable, nothing is secure. You can’t believe anything anymore, can you?
I have a very dear friend. Many, many years ago we were talking about, “What is absolute trust?” What can we do? Like we go and sign an agreement, the other person breaks it. He said that piece of paper is not even worth the weight of the paper. (He is a lawyer, by the way). He said, “Uberrima fides,” which is latin for utmost trust. What is utmost trust? It is the promise of a man. I have promised to pay you for that farm - and he does it; I have promised to honour you for the rest of my life, on your wedding day. It is absolute. It cannot be broken, cannot be bent, cannot be changed, cannot be misinterpreted. When I read this, this morning, oh my dear friend, I thought, “God, what an incredible Person You are! You wanted to make sure that we understood that the law of God is not to be broken by anybody under any circumstances.”
How many times have countries signed agreements? No more war! They don’t even walk out the door and it starts again. Remember, Chamberlain came back from Germany. He had signed an agreement with Adolf Hitler and he said, “Peace, peace!” He got off the aeroplane shaking that piece of paper. “I have signed a piece of paper.” Folks, I don’t think Chamberlain had got off the aeroplane and Hitler was already invading the rest of Europe.
Today, we need to understand. God gave us His word. Jesus wrote in the sand and He meant it. Have a wonderful day as you put your trust in the Son of God, Jesus Christ.
God bless you and have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 28th of May, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start in the Book of Acts 22:1-3. This is Paul speaking:
“Brethren and fathers, hear my defence before you now.” and when they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, they kept all the more silent and he said: “I am indeed a Jew…”
I always remember a famous man saying, ”If you speak to a man in English, you speak to his head, but if you speak to a man in his mother tongue, you speak to his heart.” What true words! You see, Paul was identifying with the people that he was speaking to. He was speaking to a group of Jews. He said, ”I am a Jew just like you.” Straight away, he had their attention. The Bible says that everybody went silent.
I’ve seen it happen so many times before. When you get a farmer standing up, speaking to a farmer’s association and speaking, as it were in their home language, straight away, you have their attention. When you speak to a miner who goes underground to mine for gold or coal, and he’s speaking to a group of tough, hardened, wonderful miners, and he starts to talk about mining operations underground, straight away, he’s got their full attention. When I see a mother, well I’m thinking particularly of my wife at the moment, a housewife, a mother of five, a grandmother of thirteen, a great-grandmother of two. When she starts to speak to young mothers, she has their complete attention immediately. Why? Because she knows what she’s talking about and she knows their heart.
Today, let us not concentrate so much on the technical aspect of things but let us start aiming at the heart of people, telling them about the love of Jesus Christ and what He means to you and to me, telling that woman that, ”it’s ok, I’ve been there where you’ve been before. I was also a young mother once, but my assurance was that Jesus Christ was with me in my darkest times when my child was sick, and I didn’t know what to do and I prayed.” And straight away those young mothers will remember that and never forget it. Today, aim at the heart, and not the head.
Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 27th of May, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start in Proverbs 16:32:
“He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, And he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.”
Then we go to Romans 7:19, and this is Paul speaking,
“For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice.” (Verse 24:) “O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?”
Now this is the great apostle, Paul, struggling also with his own feelings and control of himself. You know godliness with contentment is great gain. You will find that in 1 Timothy 6:6. We really need to take control of our emotions. We can blow it so easily, can’t we? We can be really spending time with God, we can be in the presence of God, then get into our motorcar and go to town and somebody cuts in front of you and all of a sudden you are in a rage and shaking your fists at that man, instead of just praying for him. You don’t know why that man cut in front of you. Maybe he is trying to get a sick person to the doctor. We don’t know what it is. We really need to ask the Holy Spirit to give us control over our emotions.
One man of God wrote, “More dear in the sight of God and His angels, than any other conquest, is the conquest of self, which each man with the help of Heaven, can secure for himself.” We really need to ask the Lord to take control. Now, I have mentioned to you before, Brother Lawrence, the French monk who lived 300 years ago, wrote that little booklet. He didn’t write it. It was written about him, “Practicing the Presence of God,” when he came to the realisation that it doesn’t matter what you do in life, if you give it to the Lord, He will give you His peace. He was the guy who washed the pots and pans in the monastery, the one who sewed up the sandals of the other brothers whose sandals had broken. And they used to gather around him because they wanted the peace and the self-control that they saw evident in his own life, and it was simply because he handed it over to Jesus.
Today, hand over to Jesus everything and let Him control your life.
Jesus bless you and goodbye.