I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 22nd of October, 2024, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We go to the Book of Romans 8:19:

”For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God.”

The Amplified Version says:

”For [even the whole] creation [all nature] waits eagerly for the children of God to be revealed.”

The whole of the universe is waiting for what the children of God are going to do. You know how often people come to us as followers of Christ and they say to us, ”What are you going to do about it?” I’m laughing because it’s ridiculous or, ”How can God allow this to happen?” Now when people come and say that to you do not be upset, it’s actually a backhanded compliment because they see you and I as representatives of the Lord Jesus Christ. So when we see the chaos taking place, and we weep with the world, and people come to us and say, ”You know, how can your God allow this to happen?” It’s a wonderful compliment because they recognising that you are a representative of Jesus.

When there is a crisis, that is when we are called in to sort it out, isn’t that right? Where there is a tremendous drought, I don’t know how many times it’s happened to us, they call us, ”Please come and pray for rain.” It’s something that touches me deeply when I drive up to the robots and I’m waiting for the robot to turn green and a pick-up drives up alongside me and a farmer winds his windows down and says, ”Where’s the rain?” -  as if I’m the rainmaker, no, but I am not the rainmaker - but I am the rainmakers son, and then they say, ”You’ve got a hotline to heaven.” It almost sounds disrespectful but you must understand that’s how they see it before they come to Christ, “You’ve got a hotline to heaven. Why don’t you pray about it?” Do not get disheartened. The world is always looking to us for the answers because they don’t have them, but you and I must exercise extreme compassion. Jesus wept with the people before He raised Lazarus from the tomb. You can see that in John 11:35.

So if there’s a family dispute and they call you in, maybe try tears before you start telling them what to do. Maybe there’s a business confrontation where two partners are almost at blows with one another, that’s the time to come in and bring peace and sanity into the situation. Marriage arguments - sit down and talk with the couple. Yes, you and I, as followers of Jesus Christ, we have the ability to defuse a potential disaster. How do we do it? We use the manual, we use the Bible and Jesus will rejoice and people will even perceive that we are wise, just by using the Word of God.

Jesus bless you and goodbye.