Our Sword

A very good morning to you! It is Sunday morning, the 26th of June 2022, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

“And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spoke.”

Acts 6:10

And then down to verse 15:

“And all who sat in the council, looking steadfastly at him, saw his face as the face of an angel.”

That was Stephen, the waiter. People are not interested in what we say. They want to hear what Jesus says. Do you remember the old hymn?

The first verse goes like this: All of me and none of Him
Then the second verse goes: Some of me and some of Him
And then the third verse: All of Him and none of me.

It's Bible scripture that sets the captives free, it is not William Shakespeare. It is not Sigmund Freud, no - It is the spoken word of God! That was exactly what Stephen was doing. Remember, Stephen was the first martyr in the Bible. People are starving for God’s word in these last days. We must keep it simple... Remember educators complicate, and communicators, simplify.

Stephen was a waiter. That’s all he was and yet he spoke the word of God and he mesmerized the people with all the answers to life that they were looking for. You see, it is all in the Book, that’s right! Healing, family, business... All the answers are there and they are very simple, that is why the devil is trying so hard to stamp out the reading of the Bible. He does not want us to quote Jesus.

Ephesians 6:17 in the Bible tells us that the sword of the Spirit is the word of God. It is the only weapon that the Christian has. Many of us have got to get it out of the scabbard. It is rusty. It’s blunt. We need to sharpen it up and when the devil comes at us with accusations, we return his accusations with the word of God - that defeats him every time. That is exactly what Jesus did when He was tempted in the desert.

That young evangelist, Billy Graham, when he was starting out, preached a simple message. Once, he went out into the forest in the evening. He opened up his Bible, put it on a stump, a tree stump and he got down on his knees and said, “Lord, I don’t understand everything in this Book but I am choosing by faith to believe every word.” And then he went out and he changed the world. Do it today, be a waiter for Jesus and the glory of God will shine through you!

God bless you and have a wonderful Sunday!
Goodbye.