The Big Mountain

It is Friday, 13th November 2020 and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for the day.

Joshua Chapter 14 and reading from verse 10:

“And now, behold, the Lord has kept me alive, as He said, these forty-five years, ever since the Lord spoke this word to Moses while Israel wandered in the wilderness; and now, here I am this day, eighty-five years old. As yet I am as strong this day as on the day that Moses sent me; just as my strength was then, so now is my strength for war, both for going out and for coming in. Now therefore, give me this mountain of which the Lord spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakim (giants) were there, and that the cities were great and fortified. It may be that the Lord will be with me, and I shall be able to drive them out as the Lord said.”

Oh friends, 85 years old! Give me the big mountain where the descendants of Goliath live. What a man!

You see, with God, age is not an issue.

It is attitude that He is interested in.

Let’s go out and take that big mountain for Jesus today.

Live your dream. There is no such word in the Bible for retirement.

I can’t find it. I have a mentor. He is 85 years old as well.

He is probably the most positive man I have ever met.

He rides his bicycle every single morning.

He swims in the great Indian Ocean everyday and whenever I phone him, before I can ask him how he is keeping, he always wants to know how things are with me and my family.

He hardly ever speaks about himself.

He has had a major heart surgery.

He has had eye surgery and lots of other things but it never ever holds him back.

After building a huge Christian school, I asked him if he was going to slow down a bit.

The answer was a definite, “no”. He is praying about building a Christian university.

You see, he has a different spirit - he is a man on a mission.

He does not waste time.

When I phone him, I have to speak very quickly because he is in the habit in a nice way of saying, “This conversation is now terminated. Goodbye.” And he puts the phone down.

And I want to tell you, he has a different spirit.

Numbers 14: 24:

“But My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit in him and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land where he went, and his descendants shall inherit it.”

Have a wonderful day as you ask God to give you the big mountain.