A Quieted Spirit

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name!  

It is Wednesday morning, the 1st of February, 2023 and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

“Neither do I concern myself with great matters,
Nor with things too profound for me.
Surely I have calmed and quieted my soul,
Like a weaned child with his mother;
Like a weaned child is my soul within me.”
Psalm 131 1-2

“Be of the same mind toward one another. Do not set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Do not be wise in your own opinion.”
Romans 12:16

No pride or arrogance today but rather a calm and quieted spirit. Let us quietly trust in the Lord Jesus today. You know folks, a little baby who is suckling from his mother’s breast is not concerned about the great and the marvellous things. No, he is just content to be held in his mother’s loving arms. I love to see a little calf in a field with a big herd of cattle. When that calf has lost his mother and he starts bellowing, his mother hears him in the herd and calls back to him and he runs flat out towards her. When he finds his mother he goes straight to the udder and starts to drink that beautiful warm milk. Sometimes it looks like a big frothy milkshake! But he is not concerned about anything else. He is safe. He is in his mother’s presence.  

Even though many things are not going well in the world at the moment - people write to me and ask me difficult questions, “How can God allow this? What is happening?” - I don’t know, I want to say to you today, let's be like that little suckling baby, okay? Let's not be so concerned about the big story. Let's rather just concentrate on our little story like the calf suckling its mother’s udder.

You know, I respect an old lady named Corrie Ten Boom. She has gone to be with the Lord now. She was Dutch, and she and her sister, Betsy and her old dad were hiding Jews in the attic of their little watchmaker's shop in Holland during the Second World War. The Nazis found out, arrested them and put them in a concentration camp with the Jews. 

Betsy, who was Corrie’s sister, was very sick and was dying. Corrie was lying there trying to nurse her sister in amongst all the carnage and the horror of the holocaust when Corrie cried out, “Lord, what is happening?”. She heard the quiet voice of her sister Betsy saying, “Corrie, if you know Him, you don’t have to ask why.”

Today, just concentrate on quietly trusting Jesus and He will take care of the rest.  

Have a wonderful day.
God bless you and goodbye.