Eternity in Your Heart

It is Monday morning, 13th December, the year 2021 and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

“Blessed be the Lord God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem” Ezra 7:27

That is right, the Lord has put into the heart of the King of Persia (which is modern-day Iran) a desire to beautify the Temple in Jerusalem.

God has put eternity into the hearts of men.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

I've put in the margin of my Bible: “You cannot chain the Gospel!” I firmly believe there is no such thing as an atheist, not at all! You know, I heard stories my old dad used to tell me, that the Salvation Army, those young girls of maybe 17 or 18 years old, would go down into the ghettos of some of the cities of Britain. They would go and minister to the people in the pubs, where even strong men would fear to go, and no one would harm them. Why, because those people knew that these young girls were representatives of the Living God.

A man knows, in the depths of his soul, what is right and he knows what is wrong. You can go into the jungle. You can go and speak to people who have never ever heard of the Gospel before but that person will tell you that he knows he has been created, that there is a Higher Being, he just hasn’t been introduced to Him by name yet.

The King of Persia knew that the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob was the Creator and that is why he wanted to beautify the Temple in Jerusalem. I want to say to a mother, that prodigal son of yours that you have been praying for so many years, he is going to come home. Keep the door open mom - He will come home, he knows in his heart the truth!

I will never forget as long as I live, as a young Christian I went to visit a Muslim man. I went into his house, a beautiful home he had. He brought me into the sitting room and told me to sit down while he made some tea for me. I took my Bible and put it next to my chair, on the carpet. When he came in with the tea he said: “Sir, please do not put the Bible on the ground, put it on the coffee table.” He knew that there is One and His name is Jesus Christ and He loves you and me today! All we need to do is pray and He will do the work for us.

God bless you and have a wonderful day!
Goodbye.