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

We start in the First Book of Peter 2:2: 

“…as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby,…” 

We need new milk when we are born again. When we come into a relationship with Jesus Christ as Christians, we need new milk. Now that milk is essential. Without that new milk, or colostrum, the baby can die. As a farmer, we often get a cow that will die at birth; if that calf does not get colostrum from its mother, the chances of its survival are very slim.  

I remember very distinctly when I was a young farmer, we had a beautiful cow on the farm. I did not have many cows in those days and I cherished every one of them. This cow got into a fight with another cow and it actually died. It was nine months pregnant. I ran into the kitchen and took the first knife I could find, now please ladies, bear with me, I know this might be a bit gruesome - but this is the honest truth. The cow had actually died. I took that knife, I cut the stomach of the cow open and I took out a beautiful baby calf. The calf would have been born within hours. I got a rough sack and I rubbed it, got it breathing and then I put it straight onto it’s mother’s udder and it started drinking colostrum. That first milk is full of antibodies, it protects the calf for the first few months from any diseases on the farm, and that calf grew into the most beautiful cow and gave me many, many babies after that. 

We need the Word of God. You cannot survive without the Word of God. You say, “Well, I gave my life to the Lord in 1975.” It doesn’t matter when you gave your life to the Lord, you need new milk every single day. That's what I do. Every morning, the Lord gives me colostrum, first milk, and it helps me to survive all the infections that this fallen world will try and bring against me. Please, this year, spend time in the Word every single morning, and you will grow strong in the Lord.

Jesus bless you and goodbye.