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A Fair Day's Pay
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- Thought For Today
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- Jun 29, 2026
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- 193
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Summary
I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Monday morning, the 29th of June, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Deuteronomy 24:15: “Each day you shall give him his wages, and not let the sun go down on it, for he is poor and has set his heart on it; lest he cry out against you to the Lord, and it be sin to you.” Then we go to the Gospel of Matthew 20:2: “Now when he had agreed with the labourers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.” Now, it is not in the Bible, but you know the old saying, “a fair day’s work for a fair day’s pay”? But that is so true. We really need to be careful. If you are an employer and you are listening to this message, a word from the Lord for you: if you try to underpay your staff and steal their wages, the Lord will not be pleased with you, and things will not go well in your business. I also want to say to the employees, if you are abusing your boss, your employer, by stealing his time, using his equipment for personal gain or profit, the Lord will not be pleased with you. I can tell you right now, the work will not go well, and you will probably eventually be caught and fired. We really need to honour what the Lord has put in place. We need to work hard, we need to work diligently, then our employer will treat us, hopefully, in a godly manner. You know, when I started farming, I was in a new area. I didn’t know many people here. In fact, I hardly knew anyone, and the only people I would speak to were the people who would come to the farm and ask for work, and I built up some wonderful relationships with my staff. My one foreman, you might have heard of him - Simeon Bhengu, he became, not only my employee but a very good personal friend to me. Many a…