I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Sunday morning, the 14th of July, 2024, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Proverbs 23:4:

“Do not overwork to be rich; Because of your own understanding, cease!”

In other words, stop it. Then we go straight to Matthew 6:21:

“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” 

“For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?”
Mark 8:36

I don’t know if you remember reading about the famous Wall Street financial crash. It happened in 1929, the Stock Market Crash. Overnight, share prices collapsed to nothing. That triggered the worldwide Great Depression, where there was starvation and hunger all over the world. That Wall Street Crash caused businessmen to commit suicide, literally jumping out of the windows of their business houses in their skyscrapers. 

It is time for you and me to do a heart check today. Where are our priorities? Where are we spending all our time? What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his soul? I remember watching a programme on television many years ago, the history of the great motorcar manufacturer, Henry Ford. He had an affair with another woman and when he came home to confess to his wife that he had had an affair, he noticed she wasn’t surprised at all, and he asked why not, and she said, “You have been having an affair with your business for years and I have always come second.” 

We must not do that, ladies and gentlemen. We must spend more time with Jesus, more time with our families. We must apply Matthew 6:33 which says:

“But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.”

God bless you and have a wonderful day, and think about this, because I think it is very important to some people listening to this message, 

Goodbye.