Do We Really Know Him?

It is Sunday, the first Sunday morning in 2021. It is 3rd January and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for the day.

If we go to the Book of Revelation, the last book in the New Testament, and I am reading from Chapter 19 and verse 11:

“Now I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And He who sat on him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war.

His eyes were like a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns.

He had a name written that no one knew except Himself. He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God.”

That is The Lord Jesus Christ, and He is coming very soon, maybe, even this year! Who knows? Well, it cannot be soon enough for me.

He is not returning, riding a small donkey. He will be riding a white charger, a white horse, The Commander of the armies of Heaven.

He is coming back to set the record straight, once and for all.

The devil’s days are truly numbered.

But I want to ask you a question today and to ask myself as well. Do we really know Him?

You know, Paul, probably the greatest of all the apostles in my humble opinion, said in Philippians Chapter 3 and verse 10: “that I may know Him.” He wanted to know Him more.

I never had the privilege of going to a Bible College, never had the privilege of studying the Word of God, but I know the Author of the Book. I know Him very well. He is my best friend.

Now during this turbulent time in which many of us are living, in many cases, we cannot even attend a church.

I know in South Africa, all the churches have been closed again, but what we can do is, we can read the Bible.

Now, this is the way that I read the Bible: I start off by reading, maybe the Psalms. I start with Psalm number 1 and verse 1, and I read maybe 10 verses, and I read it in the first person.

What does that mean, well, it goes like this - Psalm 23:

“The Lord is Angus’s Shepherd and Angus shall not want,” and then I write down what that scripture has meant to me personally that day.

Then I go to the New Testament, and I start in the Gospel of John. John Chapter 1 and verse 1:

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

And then I write down what it means to me.

Psalm 119, verse 105:

“Your word is a lamp to my feet

And a light to my path.”

I want to encourage you this year, to start using the Word of God because His Name is Jesus Christ and He will show you the way.

Dr Billy Graham, probably the greatest modern day evangelist of all time didn’t understand the Bible completely, and one night he went into the forest and opened the Bible and he put it on a tree stump and he got on his knees, and he said, “Lord, I don’t understand everything in this book but please increase my faith to believe the Word,” and with that, he went out and he spoke to millions of people around the world.

It is the Word of God that convicts people. I know that when I am preaching. Go out today and use the Word of God. His Name is Jesus.