I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Monday morning, the 2nd of October, 2023 and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. 

We start in the Book of Titus 2:3-5: 

“…the older women likewise, that they be reverent in behaviour, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things— that they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed.”

You know, the man may be the head of the home but the woman is the heart of the home. That scripture in Mark 8:36: 

“For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?” 

We can maybe abbreviate that - what does it profit a woman if she gains the whole world and loses her family? We need to hold the home together, mother. Everyone needs you and is looking to you. Don’t allow the devil to put you down. You know, the power of the spoken word of a mother, whether it is spoken in anger or encouragement, can make or break a man. My late mother, and I love her so much I can’t wait to see her in Heaven again, she always had lots of time for me. I never once heard my mom say, “Look, I am too busy, I can’t speak to you at the moment.” She would sit down and she would talk to me, make a cup of tea and sit with me and talk with me. My dad, and I love him dearly, was always working, always trying to make money to put bread on the table, but my mother spent hours talking to us as children. She was a great storyteller. My mom could tell a story about anything. She could hold you spellbound. She was amazing, and I learnt my trade from my mom, not from any theological establishment. By the way, so did John Wesley, probably one of the great giants of the Christian faith. He said that he learnt everything from his mom, Susannah, and not from all the great theologians of the time. And by the way, his dad was a pastor. I will leave that with you.

Have a wonderful day,
Jesus bless you and goodbye.