Our Captain

I greet you in Jesus' precious name, a very good morning to you! It is Wednesday morning, 21st December 2022, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. If we go to the Gospel of Matthew:

“Then He said to them, “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.” They immediately left their nets and followed Him.”
Matthew 4:19

Wherever Jesus went, it was either a riot or a revival. These men were fishing away, quite happily and the next minute their worlds were turned upside down and they were totally disturbed. I looked up the dictionary the meaning of the word, disturbed, it means: "To disrupt or bothered by something, interfered with or unsettled.” That is what Jesus does, doesn’t He?

A very good friend of mine sent me a reading that I want to share with you. It was written by a Ships Captain in the 15th Century and this is how it goes. It is titled, “Disturb Us.”

“Disturb us, Lord, when we are too well pleased with ourselves, when our dreams have come true because we have dreamed too little, when we arrive safely because we sailed too close to the shore. 
Disturb us, Lord, when with the abundance of things we possess, we have lost our thirst for the waters of life, having fallen in love with life, we have ceased to dream of eternity, and in our efforts to build a new earth, we have allowed our vision of the new heaven to dim.
Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly, to venture on wider seas, where storms will show your mastery, where losing sight of land, we shall find the stars.
We ask you to push back the horizon of our hopes and to push us into the future in strength, courage, hope, and love. 
This we ask in the name of our Captain, who is Jesus Christ. ”

Today, let us not be content with a mediocre life. Let us aim high and let the Captain of our lives direct us into the exciting future which He has prepared for each one of us. In Jesus' precious name,
Amen.

God bless you and goodbye.