Follow Your Leader

It is the 22nd October 2020 and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for the day.

If we go to the Book of Joshua, Chapter 3, just a couple of verses:

“Then Joshua rose early in the morning; and they set out from Acacia Grove and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel, and lodged there before they crossed over.”

And then we just go down to verse 3:

“and they commanded the people, saying, “When you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, and the priests, the Levites, bearing it, then you shall set out from your place and go after it.”

We need to follow The Lord Jesus Christ like never before.

You must remember the Children of Israel were going into the promised land.

They had never been there before and you and I are going into new territory.

What is going on in the world today has never, ever happened before and many are saying, “Which way? Where do we go? What is going to happen?”

Things are changing at a tremendous rate.

Only two men had been beyond that River Jordan before, Joshua and Caleb, and they were going to take the children of Israel into unchartered territory.

Now maybe, some of us today are like Thomas, who said to Jesus, in John Chapter 14 and verse 5, “…how can we know the way?”

And Jesus said in verse 6, “I am the way, the truth and the life. No-one comes to the Father except by Me.”

I want to say we have to follow The Lord today like never, ever before.

Get up early in the morning and seek His face and He will lead us all the way home.

Many, many years ago, I was at Agricultural College in the North East of Scotland, the North of Scotland College of Agriculture, and during the one term, one of our fellow students - his name was MacMillan (He was a tall man, about 6 ft 9 tall, black hair, sharp features), he got special permission from the principal - he was the only one who could do that, to go back home to his farm.

He farmed on the West Coast of Scotland, a high mountainous area.

He was a sheep farmer. He farmed the black-faced sheep.

And the sheep were up in the mountains and they were heavy in lamb, and he had to go back home to his farm because he was the only one who knew how to bring the sheep down from the mountains and through those canyons and down into the lowland, where they could lamb down where it was peaceful and comfortable.

We, you and I need to follow the Good Shepherd. He knows the way. He has told us that He will show us the way.

We need to wait. Waiting is so important. We need to listen and then we need to obey.

Like never before in my life, I am so excited about what The Lord has for His children on the way forward.

May God bless you as you continue to follow your Leader and do exactly what He says.

Have a wonderful day!