Amongst the People
I greet you in Jesus' precious name. It is Monday morning, the 26th of October, 2026 and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a Thought for Today.
We start in the book of Genesis 28:16. This is Jacob speaking.
Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it.”
Folks, the Lord is with you and me all the time, and we forget it so often, don't we? Then we go to Matthew 4:25.
Great multitudes followed Him - from Galilee, and from Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and beyond the Jordan.
Then we go to Mark 12:37
... And the common people heard Him gladly.
Our Lord, Jesus Christ, is the Lord of the common people, the man in the street. One of His titles is "the friend of sinners". I love that one. Yes, folks, He can be found everywhere. He can be found in the palaces of the kings of the world. But mostly you'll find in the Bible He was thronged by the ordinary working class, you could say. Now, I read this beautiful little reading in a small book by an unknown author. It's in Old English, so I'll try and paraphrase it as we go along.
The parish priest, a very sincere man, climbed up in the high church steeple
because he wanted to be nearer God that he might be able to hand down His word to the people.
And in sermon script, he wrote his sermons on a piece of paper daily,
what he thought was sent from heaven,
and then he dropped it down on the people's heads,
twice a day in seven.
In his age, God said to this parish priest,
Come down, come down from the steeple.
And he cried out from the steeple,
Where are you, Lord? He's trying to get as high as he can to heaven.
And the Lord replied, I'm down here among my people.
We don't have to look for the Lord in some special holy place. He is in amongst these people. And by the way, He's in your heart today.
Father God, I pray for my dear friend listening to this message, that he or she will remember that they don't have to go to Israel or to Britain or to America to find You. You are right here in his heart, her heart. Let us remember that.
In Jesus' Name, amen.
Have a wonderful day.
God bless you and goodbye.