Changed

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 24th of January, 2024, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. 

We start in 1 Peter 4:3: 

"For we have spent enough of our past lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles—when we walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries." 

Enough! No more - an empty, worthless, fruitless waste of time. We want to thank the Lord that Peter was such a wonderful example, he wrote this letter. He knew all about it, doing things we wish we had never done or said, causing a lot of pain and suffering unnecessarily, making a fool of ourselves at parties and getting nothing out of it. Now, Peter, the big fisherman, would know all about these wasteful things that are done. Yes, the blasphemer, the party animal as they say, but no more! 

I want to tell you a story about a man who attended one of our Mighty Men Conferences. He arrived on a huge big, very expensive road motorbike, I think it was a Harley Davidson. He set up his one-man tent and cracked a bottle of Dimple Haig Whisky the first night he arrived, but the following day, he got up to have another drink, and three young men walked past him, three young, handsome, godly men. One of them had a cross around his neck. They stopped, came over to him, and said, "Sir, we want to tell you that Jesus loves you so much." You know, he poured out the rest of that whisky out of that bottle. He broke down, he wept, and they prayed for him. His life was changed instantly from being an alcoholic to not touching another drink.

That same Peter, that party animal, when he met Jesus Christ, said, "Get away from me, for I am an evil man, Lord." The Lord used him to head up the church. Do you know that the legend goes that when Peter was caught and eventually crucified, he asked them to crucify him upside-down because he said he was not worthy of being crucified like his Lord. 

We love Jesus Christ today; there must be a change in our lives.

God bless you and have a wonderful day,
Goodbye.