Whoever
I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 12th of August, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
We start in the Book of Joel 2:32:
“And it shall come to pass
That whoever calls on the name of the Lord
Shall be saved.”
And then we go straight to the Book of Romans 10:13:
For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
The last one is Romans 10:9:
“that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.”
What a beautiful start to the day! When the Lord Jesus says, “whoever”, He means whoever. He means the good, the bad and the ugly. (I am definitely in the category of the ugly)! He says, the Jew, the Gentile, the black, the white, the coloured, the old, the young, the blue-collar worker, the white-collar worker, the students, the old-age person - whoever calls upon the name of the Lord, shall be saved.
Folks, that is huge. I don’t feel worthy to be saved. I really don’t and I am sure you don’t either. Yes, I am a born-again, baptised in water, baptised in the Holy Spirit Christian. I have been walking with Jesus for close to 50 years, and yet I still feel totally unworthy. It’s only by His grace alone that we are saved. Even Paul, the great apostle, said, “Wretched soul that I am. I do what I shouldn’t do and I don’t do what I should do. What will become of me?” And then he says, “But by the name of Jesus Christ…”
So today, if you are maybe feeling unworthy, maybe you have done something which you know is wrong. Maybe you are involved in something which you know does not bring glory to Jesus’ name. Simply ask for forgiveness. Simply ask Jesus to forgive you and stop it, repent of it, and carry on, because Peter, the great apostle, knew what forgiveness was, after he had denied his beloved Saviour no less than 3 times and yet the Lord forgave him and used him to head up the early church. So there is hope in Christ.
Have a glorious day today in Jesus’ mighty name,
Goodbye.