I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Monday morning, the 10th of February, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan with a thought for the day.

We go to the Gospel of Matthew 19:27:

“Then Peter answered and said to Him, (that’s Jesus) “See, we have left all and followed You. Therefore what shall we have?” 

Well, Peter always got to the point, didn’t he? Then we go down a little further to verse 29, and Jesus replies, “(and you) shall receive a hundred-fold and inherit eternal life.” That’s the reward! 

Jesus is a giver, He is not a taker. He doesn’t need anything from you or from me but what He does want is our complete love and obedience. That’s what He requires, what the disciples gave to the Lord. To prove that our Lord is a giver and not a taker, look at John 15:13, Jesus says:

“Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.” 

It’s the greatest thing that you can give anybody. You know, my brother’s wife, who I respect a lot, gave one of her kidneys to her brother so that he might live. Folks, that is what we call giving. Our Lord Jesus Christ is a giver, He is not a taker! I remember a story about a former drunkard, and after a few months, his friends would tease him and say, “This stopping drinking, not going to the pub with all of us, what has that actually benefited you? You don’t seem to have changed at all.” And he smiled and said, “Oh yes, I have changed a lot.” They said, “Well, in what way have you changed?” “Aah”, he said, “I now have furniture in my house.” He said, “On a Friday night, I bring my pay cheque home to my wife, I give it to her and she can feed my little darlings. Oh yes, things have changed for me.”

Folks, I want to say to you today, you can never out-give Jesus Christ. I am a personal testimony of that. He has changed my life completely and is still busy doing it - from making me a selfish, self-centred man, hopefully to a loving man who loves his family and his fellowman. Today remember, you cannot out-give the Lord. Give it all to Him and He will give it back to you a hundred-fold. 

Jesus bless you and goodbye.