I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 24th of December, 2025, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

Yes indeed, it is Christmas Eve, a very special birthday. It’s the birthday of the greatest human being that has ever lived, but I’ve got a very interesting thought for today for you. God put it on my heart early this morning. Psalm 19:14 :

”Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer.” 

Now, those of you who know me well know that I will not start preaching until I have prayed that prayer and preferably on my knees. “Why?” You say because it is a wonderful but great responsibility to bring God’s word to people. This tongue of ours over this Christmas period must be harnessed correctly and that’s not a joke. I belong to a very big family myself and I want to tell you there are people that are coming from very far. You’ve got members of your family coming from overseas, they have been waiting for this time. Be careful what you say.

If you go to the Book of James 3:6, this is what it says:

”And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell.”

Wow!

How many world wars have started because of something that has been said? How many families are in divorce because of words spoken that you wish you’d never said them? How many disasters have taken place, bad business deals, broken relationships because of a word said in anger? Don’t do it. Today, count to ten before you say it and then you probably won’t say it. You can’t bring words back once they are out. They are like that pillow full of feathers. You take it out into the wind, you open up that pillow, the feathers go all over the place. You will never put those feathers back in that pillowcase.

We need to speak Jesus. He is all that counts and if you speak Jesus today, you cannot make a mistake. Let’s be gentle, let’s be loving with each other. Let us not be part of an unruly fire that can destroy a relationship. Today, let us be as gentle and as kind as we can to each other.

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful Christmas Eve, 
Goodbye.