Land Of Milk And Honey

It is Saturday 19th September 2020, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for the day.

If we go to the Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 16 and verse 13:

“You shall observe the Feast of Tabernacles seven days when you have gathered from your threshing floor and from your winepress.”

A time to count your blessings.

A time to name them one by one.

It is a wonderful celebration time in Israel.

This year, it takes place from 2nd October right through to the 8th of November - seven days, and I want to encourage you to really support this.

For the first time ever you can participate in the Feast of Tabernacles in Jerusalem without even going there. They are going to do it online.

It will be televised and you can get the details from the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem.

You can just go to the webpage and they will give you the details.

But I want to speak to you this morning about counting your blessings.

You see, what the Israelis do, they set up a little booth, a little dwelling place in their garden, sometimes even in their flat in the lounge.

They make a little booth out of branches and they decorate it with pomegranates and figs and all the produce of Israel.

And they go in there in the evening, and they tell their children about how God was faithful and took them out of slavery out of Egypt, and went with them for forty years through the desert and brought them into the Land of Milk and Honey.

And they do it every single year because God told them to do it.

Now you know, we have made a film called, “Faith Like Potatoes” and basically that’s just the story of our lives here at Shalom, Jill, myself, our children, and of course now, my grandchildren.

It is very important that you tell your family how God has blessed you and has brought you this far, especially because of the times in which we are living which are so perilous, they are so troubled, they are so upside-down.

You need to remember that He has never forsaken you and He has never ever left you.

And so that is the only time we look back because Jesus says in Luke 9:62:

“No man, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of Heaven.”

But there is an exception and the exception is when we count our blessings and we tell our little ones about our roots, where we came from, and how God has protected us thus far.

He is not about to leave us at this stage of our lives.

So be encouraged this day, as you tell your loved ones that Jesus will never leave us and He will never forsake us.

Have a wonderful day and God bless you.