No Turning Back
I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Monday morning, the 28th of September, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We go straight to the Book of Psalms 23:3-4:
“He restores my soul;
He leads me in the paths of righteousness
For His name’s sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil;
For You are with me;
Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.”
Then we go straight to the Gospel of Luke 9:23:
”Then He said to them all, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.”
We are on a journey, folks, every single one of us, young and old. I don’t care whether you are 9 or 90, but we are on a journey! Some of us have got a lot of miles behind us, others have got a lot of miles in front of us, but we are on a journey. I listened to a beautiful old gospel song, sung by a lady by the name of Dotty Rambo, just a short while ago and these words just touched me so deeply:
Too many miles behind me
Too many trials are through
Too many tears help me to remember
There's just too much to gain to lose.
Too many sunsets behind the mountain
Too many rivers my feet have walked through
Too many treasures are waiting over yonder
There's too much to gain to lose.
Isn’t that beautiful? There is no turning back for you and me. No, no - we are not going back to Egypt. We are not going back to the old life, no. We have come too far, much too far. Do you remember that beautiful book, the Pilgrim’s Progress? Some say it is the second most well-known, well-read book, next to the Bible itself, written by John Bunyan and released in 1678. Wow! That is a long time ago. John Bunyan was a non-conformist. In other words, he was a man who loved Jesus Christ. He would not conform to any church government type doctrine. He loved the Lord. He spent a long time in jail, and he wrote this book in Bedford, in England, while in jail. The Pilgrim's Progress - a journey of a Christian, a man by the name of Christian, making his way to the Celestial City, which is Heaven, and all the pitfalls and the hardships that he went through, carrying his little bundle with him, all the way to Heaven.
Today, remember, there is too much to gain to lose.
God bless you. Have a wonderful day, goodbye.