Little Traps
I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 8th of October, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start in the Book of Psalms. Psalm 91:3:
”Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler…”
Then we go on to Psalm 124:7:
”Our soul has escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowlers…”
The last scripture, John 10:10:
”The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy.” (Jesus says) ”I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.”
The fowler is a hunter. He is concerned about trapping birds for his food. Now up in Central Africa, I remember as a young boy, there were some very clever hunters. They would take glue they got from a tree and make it nice and sticky. Then they would pour the glue along the top of one of the smaller branches of the trees and then they would sit, and they would wait, and a flock of birds would come along, and they would settle on that nice branch which is exposed to the sun, and they would like to keep warm, and so they would just settle together. Two or three and then some more would come, and eventually the hunter would come with a big bag, and as he approached the branch all the little birds would try in vain to fly away but they couldn’t, and he would pick them off the branch, one by one, and he would put them in his bag and take them home to eat.
We are so aware of big dangers. We prepare ourselves properly, but the little things - the things that will catch us out if we don’t take note of them. What am I talking about? I’m talking about not paying your accounts on time. There was a young mechanic who used to come and do private work for me, but eventually went bankrupt. Do you know why? Because people did not pay their accounts and sadly to say, most of them were wealthy people.
What about reading that cell phone when you are supposed to be driving? I know of a man who did exactly that. He’s no longer here. He died. He drove straight into a truck coming the other way. I want to say to you today, be careful of the little traps.
God bless you and have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.