I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 5th of August, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start off in the Book of Genesis 37:2:

”…and Joseph brought a bad report of them to his father.”

Then we go straight to Acts 10:34:

”Then Peter opened his mouth and said: “In truth I perceive that God shows no partiality.”

There are no favourites in God’s kingdom and that’s good news. If we look through the Bible, time and time again, favourites cause trouble. Rebecca, the mother of Esau and Jacob, her twins - if you read the story you’ll see she favoured Jacob more than Esau and that caused a lot of pain, a lot of hurt and a lot of pressure. Don’t put your children under that kind of pressure. I’m talking to parents today. That coat of many colours caused Joseph a lot of pain. It caused him to be sent away by his brothers. They sold him into slavery and he had a terrible life until the Lord redeemed him. Don’t do it!

That teacher’s pet is not a child that gets special treatment, normally it ends up that that child gets ostracised by the rest of the students in the class. We need to treat our children equally. We need to love them equally. It doesn’t matter if you have a particular soft spot for a child because that child is excelling in sport, the sport that you excelled in at school, or that child is very musical and you happen to be a good musician, so you show partiality to that child. Don’t do that! We need to make sure that our children know that they are loved equally by mom and dad and that will give them peace and an opportunity to excel in their particular areas. 

Today, mom and dad, let us really have a good hard look at our children, at our family, and by the way some of those children are already grown up and have children of their own, and yet they still feel that mom and dad had favourites. Today, let us be as Jesus is. He sees no partiality in colour, in culture, in sex. He sees us all as His creation. He loves us all equally and He died for us all equally.

Today, remember you are very special in the eyes of the Lord.

Jesus bless you and have a lovely day, 
Goodbye.