I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Monday morning, the 8th of December, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We go to the Gospel of John 10:4 and this is Jesus speaking. He says: ” And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.” I want to ask you a question this morning, I’m asking myself the same question. Do we know His voice? It is vital in these last days that you know the voice of the Good Shepherd because there are other shepherds who are not good and you can so easily be misled. I’ve just come back from visiting my great-grandson. I am now a great grandfather. He is a small little baby. He’s one year old and he is still suckling from his mother’s breast and I want to tell you, it is so wonderful for me and my wife Jill to see the communication that that little baby has with his mother. Why? Because he knows his mother’s voice, and most of all because he spends all day with his mother. Jesus says that we must know His voice. The shepherds in the Middle East don’t herd their sheep with sheep dogs as we do in the West. No, the sheep follow the shepherd, and how is that so because the shepherd spends all day long with his flock of sheep, because in the Middle East, they don’t have fences to hold in sheep. We have fences in the west to hold in the sheep. We put them in the paddock and we leave them there and then when it’s time for them to come out, we get our sheep dogs and they work very gently with the sheep, don’t get me wrong. My son has got working dogs but in the Middle East they don’t have fences so the shepherd is sitting under the tree with his sheep all day long like the Good Shepherd. It’s because of spending time. I have seen where a number of shepherds will come down to a watering point on a hot, hot day with their respective flocks of sheep. Maybe five or six shepherds with six flocks of sheep and all the sheep are mixed up together. A nightmare for a shepherd in the west and they drink together and the shepherds sit under the tree and they talk to each other and when it’s time to go they call their sheep, folks. It’s a fact, and those sheep will leave the mixed up flock and they will follow their shepherd. Then the next shepherd will call his sheep and they’ll move off in another direction because they know his voice. I want to encourage you to get to know the voice of God. You say, ”How?” by spending time with Him, by reading your Bible every morning, by praying and talking to Him every day, in the workplace, when you’re travelling and by listening to Christian music and spending time with other Christians, you will hear the voice of God. Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day. Goodbye.
