Small Miracles

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Monday morning, the 1st of September, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We go to the Gospel of Luke 19:35:

“Then they brought him to Jesus. And they threw their own clothes on the colt, and they set Jesus on him.“ 

I want to speak to you today about miracles, small miracles. There is no such thing, of course, as a small miracle. It’s either a miracle or it’s not a miracle. Now, I have been riding horses for fifty years. I am still riding a horse. I think you know him, maybe better than you know me. His name is Snowy. He is now 19 years old and he is still a beautiful horse and he is doing me so proud. But I don’t want to talk to you about that. I want to talk to you about a young donkey, a male donkey, a colt, that has never ever been ridden before. Jesus got on that donkey and rode him into Jerusalem, into a crowd that was shouting and screaming and praising and throwing their clothes on the road, and waving palm branches all over that donkey. He never once tried to run away, tried to bite someone, tried to buck the Master off his back - not once! Have you ever thought about that?

What I want to say to you today is that we must get used to small miracles. That old lady trying to find a parking place because she has got sore legs: “Lord, just open a parking place for me in front of the supermarket, please.” And what happens? Oh yes, because she believes. The problem is, a lot of us don’t.

When we started farming, Jill and I didn’t have very much money at all. Often that vehicle of ours would be on empty. Some people say that “empty-e” stands for enough! It’s not funny. It's amazing how the Lord makes that vehicle go just that much further. When we did that huge prayer meeting in Bloemfontein when the boys were mowing down a thousand hectares of grass, people would bring in diesel to fuel the tractors, and many times the young men would come to me and say, “Oom Angus, we don’t know how this works. That bowser was supposed to be empty two days ago, and it is still producing diesel and filling the tractors, every single day.”

Trust the Lord for your miracle today and He will not disappoint you.

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day,
Goodbye.