Go Out

It is Wednesday morning, 10th November, the year 2021, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for the day.

“Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, 'Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in here the poor and the maimed and the lame and the blind.”
Luke 14:21

Jesus loves all people and he invites everybody to his banquet table - The poor, the rich, the weak, the strong, the old and the young. Those who have made mistakes and those who have been even written off by society. All they have to do is simply accept His invitation to come to the banquet.

“For "whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved."
Romans 10:13

You know, one of my heroes is D.L. Moody: Dwight Lyman Moody. He lived a long time ago in Chicago. He was an American. He was a shoe salesman, by trade, and came from a farming background. He got gloriously saved. That is right - He went to the banquet and Jesus saved him, he got so excited. He wanted to tell others to come to that same banquet and so when he became a Christian, he went and said, “I want to become a Sunday School teacher.” They said to him, “You have to wait. There is a waiting list of many people who want to become teachers.”

He said, “I can’t. I can’t wait.”

They said, “Well, why don’t you go down to the ghetto of Chicago and go and tell those street children, those urchins, about the Lord.’ He said yes, he would. Do you know within months, that man had a thriving Sunday School with hundreds of children in an abandoned factory! What he did was, he would take his horse and put a bag of oranges on its back and, like the Pied Piper, he would go down the street and say to the children:

“Would you like an orange?”
“Yes please!”
“Follow me!”

And he would take them into that big deserted factory and that would be his church. He would go and get a beautiful singing canary, put it in a cage and hang it up in the front and say to the children, “The first one who doesn’t miss a Sunday will get this as a gift.” He was desperate to get the children in and many, many got saved and became followers of Jesus Christ.

You and I need to do the same today. Let's go out to the highways and byways and tell people that Jesus loves them.

Have a wonderful day and God bless you.