Your Staff

A very good morning to you! It is Monday morning, 30th May 2022, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

If we go to that famous Psalm, Psalm 23:4:

“Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.”

And then to Hebrews in the New Testament:

“The Lord is my helper;
I will not fear.
What can man do to me?”

Hebrews 13:6

Jesus Christ is our rod. He is our staff. He is our protector, yes - He is our comforter, especially in tough times. You know, Moses had a staff. I looked up in the Oxford Dictionary to find out the literal meaning of a staff: A staff is a long stick used as a support or weapon. Moses used that staff that the Lord told him to take when he visited and confronted Pharaoh and told Pharaoh to let His people go. He used that staff for miracles. Remember, he threw the staff down and it turned into a snake. Then he picked the snake up by the tail and it turned back into a staff. He opened the Red Sea... It is an ocean, not a lake, by stretching out his hand and the staff.

The Lord said, “Lift up your rod.”

Exodus 14:16

It is also a support when hiking in the mountains. Oh, I love climbing in the mountains, the mighty Drakensberg Mountains. On long, tough journeys you need a staff. You know, I love to calve sticks, that’s right, I sit quietly with a knife and I contemplate and meditate. I calve staffs which I give to people as gifts. We get the wood from the thornbushes in Zululand because they grow very slowly and are heavy and very strong. We need to carry our staff wherever we go - when I check livestock on the farm with my son, I like to take a staff or a stick with me.

Today, when you go out, take your staff with you... I am talking about Jesus and don’t go out anywhere without Him. Have a wonderful day and Jesus bless you!

Goodbye.