Thought For Today

Angus Buchan
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A short, inspirational thought for today, from Angus Buchan.

  1. 19 hrs ago

    The First Thing First

    I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Sunday morning, the 7th of June, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Deuteronomy 11:26: ”Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse:…” Then we go down to verse 32: ”And you shall be careful to observe all the statutes and judgements which I set before you today.” Then we go to the New Testament, Matthew 6:33: ”But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” I read a very interesting quotation in a book from a man of God. He says, ”We need have only one care, that we put the first thing first, faithfulness to God, then all else we need for both worlds will be supplied. God will never fail us, but we forget sometimes in our rejoicing over such an assurance, that we must fulfil our part if we would claim the divine promise.” Folks, the choice is not God’s, the choice is ours. If we put the Lord first in our lives, then He will take care of the rest. Yes, we will have challenges, we will have ups and downs, but at the end of the day, we will prevail because His word is sure, it is true, and it never fails! I want to encourage you today to sit down quietly and have a look at your life and see if you are indeed putting God first - Jesus first, then your family and then everything else, in that order. If you do that, you will not fail because the Lord will ensure that you succeed and that you prosper. Jesus Christ is the guide in our lives, nothing else. Today, let us focus on serving Him with all our hearts and then we will see with our eyes how He will bless us as He has just told us, and we will succeed. Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day. Goodbye.

    3 min

  2. 1d ago

    Mentorship

    I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 6th of June, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. If we go to 1 Corinthians 4:15, Paul says: “For though you might have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.” Ten thousand instructors, very few fathers, and I want to include mothers in this thought today. I am talking about the heads of our homes. I looked up the Oxford Dictionary to see the literal meaning of the word "mentorship" and "a mentor”. A mentor is an experienced person who advises you over a period of time. It takes a long time to be a mentor, a father, a mother. If you look at the next verse, 1 Corinthians 4:16: it says, “Therefore” Paul says, “I urge you, imitate me.”  Then we go to 1 Corinthians 11:1, he says it again: “Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ.” Now there is a challenge. It is not easy, no ways, and it takes a long time. In fact, it takes a lifetime. My children are grown up and my oldest children are grandparents already, but yet I am still there for them. I am still their mentor and their dad. A mentor is a counsellor, a consultant, a trainer, a guide, an instructor, a teacher. Are you talking to your children every day? Are they talking to you? Because if they are not, you are not doing the work God has called you to. It is not easy. I know. I have many children. In fact, I am mentoring over 500 men at the moment, so I really know what I am talking about, and it is not easy and often you drop the baton.  We were asked many years ago by the ANC, our political party in South Africa, to stop criticising the party and to come with constructive criticism, as it were. I got an opportunity to speak to the President of South Africa, and I said, “Sir, the problem in our nation is a fatherless generation.” I want to say to you today, take up your role as mentor in your home. You might be a single parent but you still have to take the responsibility, father or mother, because the children are desperate for leadership. Jesus bless you and have a good day.Goodbye.

    3 min

  3. 3d ago

    No Goodbyes

    I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 4th of June, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go straight to the Book of Acts 20:37-38: ”Then they all wept freely, and fell on Paul’s neck and kissed him, sorrowing most of all for the words which he spoke, that they would see his face no more. And they accompanied him to the ship.” Now we know that was the last time they saw Paul and they knew it because from there he eventually ended up in Rome and he was beheaded by the Roman Emperor. Always a sad thing to say goodbye, isn’t it? An airport for me is always a bitter sweet place. I sit often and I watch when I’m waiting for my plane. People that are arriving, and there is absolute joy and tears and hugs having not seen their loved ones for maybe a number of years, but it is also a place of great sadness when some loved ones are saying goodbye knowing that that they will probably not see them again in this life. I want to tell you about the Drakensberg Boys Choir. Just a short while ago, I had the privilege of speaking to these young men. As we were finishing up, we’d made the alter call, we’d prayed the Sinners Prayer, we’d repented, we’d rejoiced, and a group of these young men gathered around me and they said they’d like to sing me a song, and they sang that beautiful song, “Until we meet again” and I must say it did bring me to tears but you know the Good News is, as believers, as followers of Jesus Christ, it’s never goodbye forever. No, it’s only for a season. If we look at John 14:3, the Lord says, ”I will come again”. It’s a promise! He’s coming back to fetch us, you and me, who believe in the Lord and who love Him, and He’s going to take us home to Heaven to be with our loved ones. So that is wonderful news and Jesus has promised that to all who believe in Him. I want to encourage you to pray for your loved ones and pray that you will see them again in Heaven. Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day. Goodbye.

    3 min

  4. 4d ago

    Tell Them

    I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 3rd of June, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go to the Book of Ezekiel 3:18: ”…and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life, that same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand.“  Then we go to the Book of Acts 20:26-27: ”Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men. For I have not shunned to declare to you the whole counsel of God.”  You and I have an obligation to tell people about Jesus, starting with our own families. There’s an old saying that goes like this. “Nobody deserves to hear the Gospel twice until the world has heard it once.” Isn’t that true? We live on a farm and we’ve got lots of horses. You can take a horse to water but you can’t make him drink. Isn’t that right? We need to tell people they need Jesus Christ in order to be saved. If we don’t tell them and the Holy Spirit has prompted us to tell them, then their blood shall be on our hands. That’s what Paul was saying and that’s what the Book of Ezekiel is saying, but don’t try and force them. Now this word is specially for wives and for daughters because I want to tell you something, I am so grateful to Jesus Christ for my wife and for my dear old mother who’s gone to be with the Lord, soft hearts, but there are men that get tough and the worst thing that you can do is to try and persuade your loved one to become a Christian when he’s not ready. The worst thing you can do is to leave Christian magazines on the coffee table! I’m laughing, but it’s not funny. Those men are not stupid. They know exactly what you are trying to do. So what must we do? You must pray and you must ask God to soften their hearts, but don’t try and force them because you’ll probably push them the other way. My dear old dad was one of the strongest men I ever knew, he was a blacksmith by trade. He had his own private ways. He was very conservative, very reserved. Every time I’d try and talk to him about Jesus, he would say, “Son, I’ve got my own ways and my own belief.” How do you get through to a man like that? Well, I prayed and I prayed and then one day, oh yes, one day he said to me when I said, ”Dad, you need Jesus.” He said, ”Not before time,” and he prayed the Sinner's Prayer with me.” Do it today. Pray, get ready and then tell them about the love of Jesus. God bless you and have a wonderful day. Goodbye.

    3 min

  5. 5d ago

    Hard Workers

    I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 2nd of June, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go to the Book of Acts 20:7: ”Now on the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul, ready to depart the next day, spoke to them and continued his message until midnight.”   How’s that for a sermon? Preaching all night! But there was a young man, whose name was Eutychus. He was sinking into a deep sleep, and he fell out the window, the third storey. He fell to the ground, and he died. Paul stopped his preaching, went down to the bottom, laid his hands, laid his body over Eutychus and prayed, and God raised him up! Then Paul went back upstairs and kept preaching all night until the sun came up, then he blessed them all and continued on his journey. What a man! What a work ethic! I want to encourage you today, young man, young lady. You must work hard and especially for the Kingdom of God. It’s not about, “Oh, so and so is so lucky, or he is so blessed or so privileged.” No, if you look into that man’s life, you will see that he was a very diligent, hard-working man or woman. At university, at school, in the workplace, continually working and praising the Lord - a wonderful example to so many people who can’t even get out of their bed in the morning. Strength for the strain - God gives us enough strength for the work that he’s called us to. Let us not become lazy. Let us not become slack. You know that beautiful scripture found in Galatians 6:9: “And let us not grow weary (tired) while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.”  Jesus bless you. Have a wonderful day as you keep working for the Master! Goodbye.

    2 min

  6. 6d ago

    Confess

    I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Monday morning, the 1st of June, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Deuteronomy 9:26. This is Moses speaking: “Therefore I prayed to the Lord, and said: ‘O Lord God, do not destroy Your people and Your inheritance whom You have redeemed through Your greatness, whom You have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.” The Lord was so angry with the Children of Israel because they had made a moulded calf out of gold and started to worship it because Moses had taken so long to come down from the mountain.  Then we go straight to the Book of Romans 6:23: ”For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Then the last scripture is Luke 23:34: “Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do.” He said that while He was hanging on the cross. You know sin is a terrible thing. It hurts so many people, especially our loved ones. I’m talking about that divorce, I’m talking about that period that you have spent in prison because you stole something, I’m talking about the lies that have got you into so much trouble. It actually damages our testimony. We have nothing to say after that. It breaks my heart when I hear of men and women of God who have done so much for the Lord and then they fall into sin and their whole testimony is wiped out in one night. I remember one man, we know him well, but I’m not going to name him, he was one of the top apologists in the world. He was a man who had the students literally eating out of his hand, and then he dropped the ball, as they say, and overnight his books, his material was taken off all the shelves of every Christian bookshop that I know of, but I want to tell you some good news. 1 John 1:9 says: ”If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”   I want to pray for you. Maybe you have got yourself into a terrible situation. I want to say to you, confess your sins to your wife, to your husband, to your children, to your parents, to your loved ones. Say sorry, Jesus paid the price for our sins. He says: ”Go and sin no more, your sins are forgiven.” Pray this prayer after me:  Jesus, please forgive me for the way in which I have sinned knowingly, in a moment of weakness. I am devastated by what I have done and I plead Your blood over my life to wash the sins away so that I can continue to live a life which is pleasing to You and to my loved ones. I ask this in Your precious name. Amen. God bless you and goodbye.

    3 min

  7. May 31

    Legacy

    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.

    3 min

  8. May 30

    Nothing is Impossible

    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.

    3 min
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