{"podcast":{"title":"Thought For Today","slug":"thought-for-today-116948","podcast_index_feed_id":116948,"rss_url":"https://www.angusbuchan.co.za/thought-for-today?format=rss","website_url":"https://www.angusbuchan.co.za/thought-for-today/","image_url":"https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5927cdc63a04115c6edb89e4/1584448308250-HR2U7SIZFTDAC8P6TEJP/Option+4.png?format=1500w","author":"Shalom Ministries","episode_count":299,"summary":"A short, inspirational thought for today, from Angus Buchan.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-02T02:21:41.900981+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/thought-for-today-116948"},"episode":{"title":"Obedience","slug":"obedience","published_at":"2026-07-01T03:10:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/thought-for-today-116948/obedience","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/thought-for-today-116948","url":"https://www.angusbuchan.co.za/thought-for-today/obedience5","audio_url":"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5927cdc63a04115c6edb89e4/t/6a4407242ec7a6363d09665d/1782934299770/TFT_010726.mp3","summary":"I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 1st of July, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Matthew 25:21: “His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.”  I want to ask you a question today. Are you being obedient to what the Lord called you to? Whenever I think of an obedient servant, I think of Job, the farmer. Job didn’t always have it going well for him. We know that. If you look at Job 13:15, he said “Though He slay me, yet will I ( still ) trust Him.” That is unconditional surrender, that is being a faithful servant whether the going is good or whether the going is not so good. Where do you stand today?  I want to pray for you in a moment because I read something this morning that really stirred me up. A famous man of God said, “God holds us responsible, not for what we have but for what we might have had, not for what we are but for what we might have been.” I want to say to you today, there is no future in the past but this is a directive that I believe we need to look at. The Lord is saying, “But I told you to do that and you didn’t do it, now you haven’t got anything. I gave you an opportunity to go through that door, but you were scared. I gave you an opportunity but now you have lost it.” But we thank God that He is a merciful God and if we cry out to Him, He will give us another opportunity to put things right. So I want to pray for you: Heavenly Father, I pray for my dear friend listening to this message today, that he will repent, say sorry, for things in his life he knows he should have done and yet he didn’t do them. Give him an opportuni…","meta_description":"I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 1st of July, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We s…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":190,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/thought-for-today-116948/episodes/obedience/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/thought-for-today-116948/obedience.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}