I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 6th of January, 2024, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. 

We start in the Book of Isaiah 28:10. The Lord says:

"For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept,
Line upon line, line upon line,
Here a little, there a little."

That is how you and I will get through this year, 2024. This is not a 100-metre sprint; it is a long-distance race. There are 366 days that we are going to move through and we are going to do it slowly, very slowly, line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little. Now, if you read this chapter you will see that the Pharisees, the so-called intellectuals, theological intellectuals, pooh-poohed this. They said, "This is for children, it's not for us." But I want to tell you that the Lord has written this for every one of us. He has shown us very clearly that we need to do it His way; otherwise, it is not going to work.  

We had an old lady who lived here with us at Shalom for many, many years, a very faithful intercessor. Her name was Aunty Peggy. Aunty Peggy used to write poems for me. I still have them in my possession. She called herself Tortoise O'Neal, that was her surname, Peggy O'Neal, and she called me Buchan Hare, because I was always running flat out all over the place, and she was just quietly walking along and she always got to the top of the hill before me, normally with a nice ice cold Coke. Aah, folks - line upon line, precept upon precept! We really need to understand this principle of the Lord.  

How do you eat an elephant? One mouthful at a time. How do you run a thousand miles? One footstep at a time. We really need to pace ourselves this year and obey the word of God. Do you know, this scripture is so serious, that the Lord repeats it in verse 13 of Isaiah 28. He says: 

"Line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little." 

That's how your business will succeed, that's how you will get your degree, how you will finish strong, and how your crop will be nice and golden to harvest if you persevere with it, slowly but surely.

Jesus bless you and have a lovely day,
Goodbye.