Episode
His Aim
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- Thought For Today
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- Jul 15, 2026
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- 207
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Summary
I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 15th of July, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go straight to the Gospel of Matthew 14:22: ” Immediately Jesus made His disciples get into the boat and go before Him to the other side, while He sent the multitudes away.” Are you on a journey today and are you feeling that something’s going wrong because you firmly believed that the Lord told you what to do, start that business, finish that degree, marry that man, have children? And it’s not working, and you are wondering whether, in fact, you have heard God correctly. Well, I’ve got a special message for you today. I read this story by a man named George Matheson. You’ve heard me speak about him many times before, a blind Scottish preacher, and this is what he says: Jesus urged them to go. One would think that if ever there was a certain promise of success in a mission it was here, absolutely sure that it was a directive from God, so it must work.” This is what he says ”Surely here, if anywhere, a triumphant issue might have been confidently predicted; and yet here, more than anywhere, there was seeming failure. He sent them out on a voyage, and they met with such a storm as they had never yet experienced.” Remember, these were fishermen. ”Let me think about this, for it has been so with me as well. Many times, thinking I was doing the right thing, going ahead in faith and all of a sudden, everything changed. "I have sometimes felt,” he says, ”myself impelled to act by an influence which seemed above me - urged to put out to sea. Urged to step out in faith. “ I know this so well in my own life. “The belief was that I was constrained, urged, given the confidence, and I was sure of a calm voyage but…