I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 21st of September, 2023 and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. 

We start in the Book of Job 13:15, Job said: 

“Though He slay me yet will I trust Him.” 

Then we go straight to the New Testament to the Book of Romans 8:28, a verse that we all know so well: 

“And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.”

I can hear somebody saying today, “I don’t understand what is happening in my life. Things are just falling apart. I really cannot understand why this is happening. Lord, why is this happening? Why are You allowing this in my life, in my family, in my business, in my career? I don’t understand.” Well, I want to tell you a story, and this might help you with your understanding of the things of God.

Corrie Ten Boom, a Dutch lady, and her sister, Betsy and their old dad had a jeweller shop in Holland during the Second World War. They were hiding Jews in the upstairs room in their Jeweller shop. Somebody found out and reported it to the Gestapo, and the Nazis arrived to arrest Corrie, her sister and her old dad. Well, within three weeks, the old man had died. Corrie and her sister, Betsy were put in a concentration camp with the Jews, and it was a hellish place. Betsy was a wonderful woman of God. She was very strong in her faith, much stronger than Corrie at that time, but Betsy got very sick and one day she was lying on the ground, Corrie had her in her arms, and Corrie looked up and was crying out to God, “Lord, I don’t understand. Why are You doing this, allowing this to happen to us?” And a little voice from her sister, Betsy, as she was dying, whispered to Corrie, she said, “Corrie, if you know Him, you don’t have to ask why.”

I want to say to you today, my dear friend, if you know Jesus, you don’t have to understand. You only have to believe. Put your trust in the Lord and He will see you through. He will not desert you, and He will not leave you. He says in Hebrews 13:5:

”I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day,
Goodbye.