Rest

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 17th of February, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We go to the Book of Numbers 9:23:

”At the commandment of the Lord they rested in the tents, and at the commandment of the Lord they journeyed…”

Then we go to the Gospel of Mark 6:31:

”And He said to them ”Come aside by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while.” For there were many coming and going, and they did not even have time to eat.”

I think the Lord is speaking to somebody very specifically today and saying, ”It is time to come aside and rest. You don’t even have time to eat.”

Timing is so very important in life. There’s a time that you must work, and you must work very hard, and there’s a time that you must rest, and you must rest correctly. The children of Israel in the wilderness were told by the Lord, you see, when the cloud moved, they packed up all their tents and they followed the cloud. When the cloud stopped, they stopped, and they set up camp. This happened night and day. Remember a pillar of fire by night and a cloud by day, and that is how they lived for forty years.

Now I want to tell you about South Africa’s all-time champion marathon runner, Bruce Fordyce. Bruce Fordyce won the gruelling Comrades Marathon no less than nine times consecutively, and why was that? It was all because of timing. I used to love watching him on television, when they all started, all the youngsters were sprinting out of the blocks as they say, and Bruce Fordyce was nowhere to be seen, and then slowly but surely, as the race carried on the young men started falling out, one after the other. I always remember Bruce Fordyce running at his own speed and looking at his watch. He was running according to his time, not according to what everybody else was doing, and he paced himself so perfectly that he won that race consistently.

Now we need to take a leaf out of his book. If you and I are going to finish strong for the Lord Jesus Christ, we really need to be sure that we are resting and that we are working, but we need to do it God’s way.

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.
Goodbye.