I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 23rd of March, 2024, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. 

We start in the Gospel of Luke 24:31: 

“Then their eyes were opened and they knew Him; and He vanished from their sight.” 

The two men walking on the road to Emmaus were joined up by a Man they didn’t recognise. They walked with Him, they talked with Him, they even invited Him in for the evening. He broke bread with them and then they recognised that it was Jesus. He had been raised from the dead! And with that, He vanished from their sight. They didn’t even recognise Him. What about you and I? How many times do we fail to recognise that the Lord is actually walking with us, and we don’t see it? ‘Lord, where were You?’ ‘I was with you all the time.’ My dear friend, Jesus Christ promised you, and He has promised me He would never leave us and He would never forsake us. Hebrews 13:5. 

Often, Jesus is busy working in our circumstances, and we are blind; we just don’t see it until much later on in our lives. Never write off the education that you are getting at this moment from the school of life, the school of hard knocks. Jesus loves to show His hand through the unexpected. That is what A.B Simpson said, that great preacher. 

There He was, walking alongside these two men and they didn’t even know it. Folks, many a time, when I look back in my life, I realise how God was working with me before I even knew Him. I will give you an example - my dear old mother, that Scottish lassie, was a great storyteller. She would sit there with her cup of tea and my brother and I and my sister would gather around her, because my dad had already gone to work, and in the school holidays she would tell us incredible stories. My mom could tell you what we were going to have for lunch and have you hanging on each word! That’s the honest truth: she was an extraordinary storyteller! I didn’t realise it, but even in those early days when I was a young boy, my mom was coaching me to be a storyteller. Now, that is exactly what I am. I am busy telling you a story right now and I never even knew it. 

I want to say to you today, if you are feeling lonely, don’t worry, Jesus is walking next to you. Talk to Him and He will talk back to you through your circumstances, through nature, through a good friend. He will encourage you because He loves you. 

Lord, I pray that you will open the eyes of my friends today so that they will see that you have been with them right from the beginning.

God bless you and have a wonderful day,
Goodbye.