Faithful to the End
I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 12th of November, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start in 1 Samuel 7:15:
”And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.”
Then we go to the New Testament to the Book of Philippians 1:21. Paul says:
”For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.”
This morning the Lord is talking to you and me about being faithful to Him to the very end. Samuel was one of the few prophets that went the full distance. He never once disappointed God. He was faithful in his calling to the very end and Paul could honestly say, and he did it, that ”For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.” So if we live, we live for Christ and if we die we go home to heaven.
God is looking for faithful men and women today. There is no place for fair-weather Christians in the Kingdom of God. “What does that mean, Angus?” That means you cannot serve God today and, because things don’t go the way you want, you are not serving Him tomorrow, and then next week you decide you’ll serve Him again. It doesn’t work like that. God is looking for faithful men and women.
Remember, it’s not how you start the race that counts but rather how you finish. You can start as fast as you like and leave everybody else behind but halfway down the road you run out of steam and you pack up, that’s no good. No one is interested in that. As a sportsman, you will know you are only as good as your last game, and that is a fact. People don’t think about all the good things you did. They only remember you at the end, and that disappoints me so much in this day and age in which you and I are living. So many men and women are not finishing strong and we need to make a decision that we are not going to drop the ball just before the finish line.
I want to pray for you:
Father God,
I pray for my dear friend who’s running the race of their lives at the moment. Lord, they are tired, they are weary. Many are contemplating giving up, “It’s too tough, we can’t finish.” Lord, I pray that they will be like Paul who says, ”For me to live is Christ and to die is but gain.” I ask this in Jesus name.
Amen.
God bless you and have a wonderful day.
Goodbye