Love

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 26th of March, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We go straight to 1 Corinthians 13:1: Paul says:

“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.”

Then we go to verse 13:

“And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.”

There is no doubt about it, it is the most powerful force on earth because it is God. God is love. He who does not love God does not know God. 

Many years ago, I had the privilege of speaking to a large group of Welsh farmers, their wives and their children, in a big agricultural hall. I will never forget it. They started to sing that well-known hymn that originated in the Welsh Revival at the turn of the last century. But they didn’t sing it in English. They sang it in Welsh, a beautiful language. And I want to sing it to you, just the first verse, and think of these words. 

Here is love vast as the ocean,
Loving kindness as the flood,
When the Prince of Life, my ransom,
Shed for me His precious blood. 
Who His love will not remember?
Who can cease to sing His praise?
He shall never be forgotten,
Through Heaven’s everlasting day.

After that hymn was sung, I was weeping, I could not speak. Such love! Love is also powerful. Do you know the story of the lady who was in the kitchen? Her son was working on a car outside, and the jack that was holding up the car, a huge American limousine, slipped and fell, and he was trapped underneath the car, and obviously, he shouted out for help. His mother ran out, a little lady, and picked up the car so that they could get the young man out from underneath it. The car weighed 3,000 lbs. How is that possible? It is only possible through love. Such love she had for her son that she did something that defied gravity completely, and she held that car up until the neighbour came and pulled the boy out.

Today, go out and love one another because that is what Jesus said.

God bless you and have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.