New Creations

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 6th of May, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We go to the Gospel of Luke 5:32. This is Jesus speaking. He says:

“”I did not come to call the [self-proclaimed] righteous [who see no need to repent], but sinners to repentance [to change their old way of thinking, to turn from sin and to seek God and His righteousness].” (Amplified Version)

Straight forward, straight talking - “I didn’t come to seek those who think they are okay. I came for those who know they are not okay but they want to change their ways.” We need to remember where we came from. Remember, people who live in glass houses don’t throw stones! I am one of them because I remember where I was before I met the King of Glory, the Lord Jesus Christ. I was lost, I was desperate, I needed help and I met the Lord and He changed my life. He also changed my way of thinking. 

Sometimes the best ambassadors for the Kingdom of God are newly converted believers because they understand so clearly what the other man or woman is going through. When you walk with the Lord for many years, you tend to forget sometimes what the man in the street is up against and you can’t identify with him. I remember a minister once saying to me, a lovely man of God, he said, “The day I put the dog collar on, the day that I got dressed in my minister’s garb, I lost 95% of my witness, because people see you coming from a long way away, not to say that it is wrong, but that is a fact.” What do they say? It takes a thief to catch a thief. I shouldn’t really say that should I? But what I think that saying means is that if you really understand where somebody is, you can identify with them. 

The first man I ever led to the Lord Jesus Christ was in a maize field, my green cathedral, and that man is now with Jesus today. But the two of us were in tears, we didn’t know really how to pray the Sinner’s Prayer but we did it and I know God saw it and I know that that day, that man changed. Jesus has come for you today. I don’t know where you are at in your life. Maybe you are lost and you say, “I can’t go on anymore, Angus.” Please pray this prayer after me:

Dear Lord Jesus,

I am a sinner and I need you today to help me. 

I can’t go on much longer. 

Please help me, and I ask this in Your precious name. 

Amen. 

That is good enough for the Lord, and now follow through. Find a believer, tell him your story, get a Bible, start reading it because if any man is in Christ, he is a new creation.

Jesus bless you and goodbye.