I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 27th of August, 2024, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We go to the Gospel of Matthew 13:16:

“But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear;…”

The Lord has given us spiritual eyes and spiritual ears so that we can see and hear directly from Him. You and I need to lift up our eyes and open our ears much better. He who aims at the stars aims too low! We have got to aim higher, above the stars. 

1 Corinthians 2:9: 
“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,
Nor have entered into the heart of man
The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”

You know how much God has in store for you, why are we grovelling when we should be standing tall and aiming high?  I want to ask you a question, how big is God? Well, God is as big as you allow Him to be in your life and today we need to lift up our eyes and open our ears.

A very famous South African statesman, Jan Smuts said, “A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself.” We really need to understand that. I remember going to Sweden, many, many years ago. We were praying in the vestry at the back of the church before the service started. One man said to me, ‘What are you doing over here? Why don’t you go back to Africa? We don’t have poverty or hunger here.” And then a lady started to cry. She said, “Angus, here we have everything that opens and closes  - we have water that we can drink out of the lakes, we have the biggest trucks in the world but we keep Jesus in a matchbox and sometimes we just let Him out a little bit. Please pray for us. 

Philippians 4:13: “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”

Don’t tie God’s hands by doubt and unbelief. Write that book that you want to write, start that business that you believe God wants you to start. Study and finish - to be that doctor that can help the poor and the sick.  Train hard and be an international sportsman so that you can glorify God on the podium, like so many Christians have done in the Olympic Games. Do not limit God in your life.

Jesus bless you and goodbye.