The Greatest Monuments

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 17th of February, 2024, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.  

We go straight to the Book of Hebrews 8:10: 

“…write them on their hearts:…” 

I read a beautiful little inscription written by a man named Theodore Cuyler; it goes like this, “Marble and granite are perishable monuments, and their inscriptions may be seldom read. Carve your names on human hearts for they alone are immortal.” 

We have got to spend more time with people. We have to realise that they are the trophies of God, not on monuments of granite and stone, even though they might be very beautiful and very meaningful. I think of the “Its Time” prayer meetings we had in our beloved South Africa. The one in Bloemfontein has got three massive crosses on a hill and it is a commemoration of what took place when over a million people came together and prayed for our country. I remember the beautiful cross put up at Krugersdorp when we had a “Speak Jesus” event. I remember the cross put up in Pretoria, Tswane, where countless numbers came to pray, and of course I remember the protea, the South African flower, made in concrete with a dam wall, commemorating the Theewaterskloof Dam which was bone dry and the hand of Elijah, the prophet who spoke about rain and then withheld the rain, and then God brought the rain. That monument is made in Mitchell’s Plain. You can go and see it. We call Mitchell’s Plain the flower of Cape Town. Two hundred fifty thousand-plus people prayed. There had been no water and no rain in Cape Town for over two years and in the middle of the meeting, it started raining, and it hasn’t stopped since. 

But the monuments that people will never forget is the folks that got saved, the folks who met Jesus Christ, the people who were healed, relationships restored - those are the monuments that are immortal. I often meet people, even now, and they say, “Do you remember when we were at that big rugby stadium in Pretoria, Loftus Versveld? That is the day that Jesus Christ met me and my heart was changed forever.” We need to spend time with humans, the greatest monuments and trophies of all, and those are the ones that God wants us to spend time on.

Jesus bless you and goodbye.