A Good Chat

A very good morning to you!

It is Thursday morning, 27th of January and the year 2022, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

“And He sent Peter and John, saying, “Go and prepare the Passover for us, that we may eat.” So they said to Him, “Where do You want us to prepare?”

And He said to them, “Behold, when you have entered the city, a man will meet you carrying a pitcher of water; follow him into the house which he enters. Then you shall say to the master of the house, ‘The Teacher says to you, “Where is the guest room where I may eat the Passover with My disciples?” ’ Then he will show you a large, furnished upper room; there make ready.”

So they went and found it just as He had said to them, and they prepared the Passover.”

Luke 22:8-13

You and I need to have a good chat, that's right - a good talk with our loved ones. With our wives, our children and husbands and where do we do that? The same place that Jesus did it... at the dinner table. How often, Mom, do you lay the table in the evening for supper? It is so very important.

In the family, there is no blue room... I remember as a young man, guys telling me, “We have been sent to the blue room.” What does that mean? “Well, my wife is not talking to me at the moment and probably quite rightly so anyway.” But that is exactly what the devil is trying to do. He is trying to separate families. He is trying to separate Mom and Dad, he is trying to separate the children from their parents. Even with this coronavirus going around the world and wearing masks... I know we have to do it by law and I am not saying we mustn’t. What I am saying is that we don’t have a chance, do we, to speak to each other?

Jill comes back from the shops and she says, “I didn’t see anyone to speak to today. I just saw a lady from a distance, we gave each other a wave but we couldn’t speak to each other.” We really need to speak, we have got to speak. Speak to your boss, tell him you are not happy with the way things are going. “No, but he won’t listen to me Angus.” Make an appointment and speak to him. Speak to an employee and tell him the thing he is doing is upsetting you so that he can rectify it.

Dad, do you know why your little boy doesn’t like school? “No, well, I didn’t like school when I was young either.” No, that is not the point. Maybe it is because he is getting bullied at school and he doesn’t know what to do about it. Mom, your teenage daughter is under severe peer pressure at the moment, do you know that? She needs help, she needs counsel. Her boyfriend says he loves her but he wants to be more intimate with her and if she doesn’t comply he has told her he is breaking up with her. She doesn’t know what to do.

Just like Jesus spoke to his disciples and told them what was going to happen to him, how He was going to be crucified but on the third day He was going to rise from the dead - they didn’t believe him anyway, but he had prepared them. We cannot have any secrets, we need to work through challenges together - Speak about it. Many a marriage could be saved if you just sit down at the dinner table and talk about it.

Do you know for example, what your wife or husband's favourite colour is? Do you know what toothpaste they use? Do you know what deodorant they like, or what scent? What food do they like? What flowers does she like? How many sugars in their tea?

Today, sit down and have a good honest chat with one another, and Jesus will do the rest.
God bless you and goodbye.