Remember

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Monday morning, the 9th of November, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in 1 Samuel 7:12:

”Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen, and called its name Ebenezer, saying, “Thus far the Lord has helped us.”

It literally means “stone of help”, and then we go to 1 Corinthians 11:25. Jesus says:

”This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.” 

When they won the battle, to remember how gracious the Lord had been to the children of Israel, Samuel set up a stone, a rock, as a reminder of God’s help and how He had delivered the enemy into Israel's hands. And the same way, Jesus Himself, on the night of His betrayal, when He had broken bread and given thanks, and He had drunk from the cup, He said, "Do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of Me.” It’s so important to remember where the Lord has brought us from.

Just outside our little chapel on the farm, we have a big cairn of stones and we put them up there as a remembrance of how the Lord has helped us. I’m talking well over twenty years ago. The Lord has brought us through tremendous droughts. He has grown a crop of maize when there was no hope. He has raised up a crop of maize that has been pummelled to the ground by hail. It is a place also where we remember our loved ones, tragedies and also great successes, funerals and weddings. It is a special place, and even now, I often walk past there before church, and I remember how the Lord has delivered us in times of extreme pressure. Maybe today somewhere in your garden, maybe in your churchyard, maybe in a very special place, you can put up a big stone or a cairn of stones to remember that the Lord has been with us and delivered us.

Jesus died for you and me so that we can have eternal life. Break bread, have communion as often as you can, wherever it might be. God bless you as you remember how the Lord has delivered us.

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day. 
Goodbye.