I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Monday morning, the 25th of May, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We go to the Gospel of John 17:19, and this is the Lord Himself speaking:

”And for their sakes (that’s you and me) I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.”

Sanctified - I looked up the Oxford dictionary, it means, “something holy”.

“The only way that you and I can help them is by being the noblest and the best man or woman that it is possible for us to be.” That was spoken by a man named Phillips Brooks. You see it’s by example. That is how we help people. They won’t do what you tell them. I’m talking about your children; they will do what you do. So if you shout and swear, they’ll do exactly the same thing.

Never give a person a job you cannot do yourself. Show them, don’t just tell them. When you’ve got a new tractor driver and he’s ploughing and the plough is not set properly, and the front coulter’s going in too deep, and the back one’s sticking up in the air, and he’s driving it in the wrong gear, and there’s black smoke coming out of the exhaust pipe, don’t sit in your pickup at the headland and shout at him. Rather let him come to the end of the field and before he turns the tractor around, jump on the tractor, ask him to sit next to you and show him the right gear, then set the plough for him and then he’ll be very happy and he’ll listen to you, but if you don’t know how to do it then don’t try and tell him. We need to walk the talk. That’s what Jesus always did, and that’s why I love Him so much. Do you remember that old hymn: ”A new commandment I give unto you?” Should we sing it together.

A new commandment
I give unto you,
That you love one another
As I have loved you,
That you love one another
As I have loved you.

By this shall all men know
That you are My disciples,
If you have love one for another.
By this shall all know
That you are My disciples,
If you have love one for another.

Jesus said, ”A new commandment I give unto to you, that you love one another as I have loved you." He showed us how to do it. Let us go out into the world and make sure that we do not cause people to stumble but to love them in the noblest and the best way we can!

Jesus bless you and have a lovely day.
Goodbye.