Dying to Live

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Good Friday, the 18th of April, 2025 and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go straight to the Gospel of John 12:24, and Jesus said: “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain”. Yes, it's in dying that we live, and today, the Lord Jesus Christ, our beloved Saviour, has shown us by example what we need to do. If we want to live, we need to die to self. He did the same thing. It's in dying to self that we truly live. As a farmer, I can tell you it is only when you sow good seed into the ground and that seed dies, that it produces new life, new plants abundantly. Don’t hoard it, don’t stash it away, and don’t put it in a container where there is no disease, insect damage, or any mould that can touch it. It will stay there forever, but it is when you take it out of that enclosure and put it into the ground it starts to live. We mustn’t be selfish. Jesus, today, 2000 years ago, showed us that if you want life and you want it abundantly, you must be prepared to die to self. No one took His life, He gave His life freely. No-one can touch the Son of God, and you and I today need to do the same. We need to put the flesh down, we need to start to prefer one another, we need to start to live and to work for our fellowman, and then we will find the key to an abundant life and a life that is worth living, a life that has purpose, and then we will understand the principle of living for Christ. I want to encourage you today to sit quietly somewhere with your Bible, maybe in the garden, wherever, and just think about what the Lord did for you and me today. If He had not died for us and our sins, we would not be alive today. What a mighty gift He has given to you and me. Jesus bless you and have a peaceful day, thinking about what the Lord did for us, Goodbye.