I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Sunday morning, the 4th of May, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. 

We start in the Book of Isaiah 60:1:

“Arise, shine; For your light has come!  And the glory of the Lord is risen upon you.”

Oh, my dear friend, He is not dead, He is alive, and He is coming back soon. The tomb is empty. We have just celebrated Easter. Our Saviour is alive and He is well!  

Then we go the New Testament, to the Book of Ephesians 5:14:

“Therefore He says: “Awake, you who sleep, Arise from the dead, And Christ will give you light.” 

The Lord is telling you and I to get out of that place of despondency, that place of death, and arise because our Champion is very much alive today. How is it with you? Are you feeling depressed? Are you feeling that there is no future? There is a future, and the future is Jesus Christ! He is coming back very soon to fetch you and me and take us home to be with Him in glory. We need to prepare. Somebody once said we must live like He is coming tomorrow, and we must prepare like He is coming in 1000 years. We must be prepared. 

They asked John Wesley, the great English reformer, “If you knew that Jesus was coming tomorrow, what would you do today?”  He said,“Well, this morning I have got a Bible study at 9 o’clock, then I am getting on my horse, Dobbin, and  I am riding to the next town, and then I have got another meeting and then this evening, I will be meeting with a few people.” In other words, he just carried on. 

Arise, awake! “Martin Luther, if you knew the Lord was coming tomorrow, what would you do today?” He said, “I would plant an apple tree.” If you go to Germany you’ll see they have many apple trees, beautiful apple trees. What are these two giants of the faith saying? They are saying that we need to awake. We need to realise that the Lord Jesus Christ is the one who gives us the strength to live one day at a time. Don’t look for the living among the dead. The tomb is empty. Jesus says, “Wake up, wake up today.”

Jesus bless you and wake up!
Goodbye.