Turn to the Father

Thought For Today

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I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 8th of November, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We go straight to the Book of Exodus 32:1:

“Now when the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods that shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.”

Oh, I want to tell you my dear friend, when I read that scripture this morning, my heart broke. What short memories do we have? Here is a man, Moses, being directed by God to take the people of Israel, out of slavery, out of Egypt, to take them to the sea, and the Red Sea opened. They passed through the sea, then the Red Sea closed on top of the most powerful army on earth at the time, and drowned them all. Then he turned water that was so brackish that they couldn’t drink it into sweet drinking water. They tell me it is still there today. He took them through the most savage of all deserts, where it is over 50 degrees. Then they had no food to eat. He fed them manna from Heaven, every single morning, and partridges (quail). He looked after them, and just because he was a bit late in coming down the mountain with the Ten Commandments, they forgot all about Him.

Maybe today you are feeling like that. You are feeling “Angus, I have taken care of my family. I grew them up, I paid for their schooling, I paid for their university, I paid for their wedding and now they don’t even phone me.” Or maybe a young person is saying, “My mom, my dad, they don’t want anything to do with me. They said, ‘You are on your own now,’ but I have loved them and been faithful to them all these years.

I want to encourage you today to look up and speak to your Heavenly Father. He understands the hurt that you are experiencing right now because it hurt Him as well when His beloved people turned their backs on Him because His servant, Moses, was a couple of days late, and they went straight ahead and made an idol out of gold. How could they do it? How could your son, your daughter, just walk away? How could your mom and dad disown you?

Turn to the Father today and speak to Him. He understands. He will listen to you, He will dry away those tears. Have no animosity, no unforgiveness, and move on.

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day,
Goodbye.

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