Faith Like Potatoes

And a very good morning to you! It is Sunday morning, 27th March, the year 2022. And this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

"Look, the world has gone after Him!”
John 12:19

That’s right, one genuine miracle equals a thousand sermons, you cannot argue about it - You cannot dispute it! You see, Lazarus had been dead for four days in the tomb, now He is walking around alive. No one could dispute that fact.

You will see that in verse 17 of the same chapter. The world has gone after Jesus because He performed miracles as no one else had ever done before. It was not the sermons that He preached.  In fact, the only sermon that we know of was found in Matthew, Chapter 5 - the sermon on the mount. It was only recorded once and I believe that it was the signs, the wonders and the miracles that Jesus performed that people saw and followed after Him.

The whole world has gone after Him.

You know, some people say that miracles stopped happening when the apostles died.  I don’t believe that at all because in Hebrews 13:8, the word of God tells us that Jesus is the same, yesterday, today and forever. Just yesterday I was visited by a school, a class of senior students who are using our little book, Faith Like Potatoes, as a setbook. Obviously, I was deeply honoured and I had the privilege of speaking to them and praying for them. One of the students stood up and said, “Where did you get the name from, Faith Like Potatoes?" I said, "That was a name that Peter Marshall (He was a pastor to the US Senate in America, many years ago.) He came across from Scotland as a printer, studied and became the personal chaplain to the US Senate and he said, “You have got to have simple faith.  You have got to have faith that you can touch, faith that you can taste, simple faith like… like potatoes!” Just believe and stop arguing and you will see many more miracles.

I stood up at Kings Park Rugby Stadium in Durban and I said, “I am going back to plant potatoes, in a year when El Nino was prevalent and they said, “Don’t plant your marginal fields.” I said, “I am going back…” And I planted a crop of potatoes and you know, we had a beautiful crop of potatoes that year.

So faith is to believe what you cannot see and the reward of that faith is to see what you believed. That is what Augustine said. Have a wonderful Sunday and Jesus bless you!

Goodbye.