I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 9th of October, 2024, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in Ezekiel 18:32:

”For I have no pleasure in the death of one who dies,” says the Lord God. “Therefore turn and live!”

Then we go to the Gospel of John 3:7:

”Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’”

That scripture from Ezekiel puzzled me for a long time - “I have no pleasure in the death of a dying man, therefore repent and live.” What is the Lord meaning? He is saying that He does not want a sinner to die and go to hell, but He wants everyone to be saved and go to Heaven. It’s all about choices, isn’t it? Jesus is known by many titles. He’s known as the Great Ploughman; the Shepherd of the sheep; the Alpha and the Omega; the Beginning and the End; He is known as the Bright Morning Star; He is known as the King of kings, but the title I love the most is known as the Friend of sinners. We have to make a choice, and it’s not about good people going to Heaven at all. You have heard me saying that so many times. When you think about it, when Jesus walked on this earth, He spent most of His time with tax collectors, prostitutes, thieves, lepers, widows and orphans - not the successful! He said, ”I came for the sick, not for the healthy.” So what about you today, where are you standing today?

I looked at The Message Version of the Bible and this scripture ends up where He says, “Make a clean break! Live!” You and I, let’s start to live today.

I want to pray for you and I want to really pray this prayer from my heart, not only for you but for myself, because you know folks, we’ve got to work out our salvation with fear and trembling the Bible says. What does that mean? It means we can’t live a life where one day we’re in and one day we’re out, one day we are for the Lord and the next day we are not. We can’t live like that. We have got to make a decision. ”For I have no pleasure in the death of one who dies,” says the Lord God. “Therefore turn and live!” 

Why don’t you pray this prayer with me? 

Father God, 

This morning we come to You and we ask You to save us. Save us Lord from sin, from iniquity, but save us mostly from ourselves, we keep letting You down. 

Lord, we commit our lives completely and entirely to You today. 

In Jesus name, Amen.

God bless you and goodbye