Aim for the Heart

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Thursday morning, the 28th of May, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Acts 22:1-3. This is Paul speaking: “Brethren and fathers, hear my defence before you now.” and when they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, they kept all the more silent and he said: “I am indeed a Jew…”  I always remember a famous man saying, ”If you speak to a man in English, you speak to his head, but if you speak to a man in his mother tongue, you speak to his heart.” What true words! You see, Paul was identifying with the people that he was speaking to. He was speaking to a group of Jews. He said, ”I am a Jew just like you.” Straight away, he had their attention. The Bible says that everybody went silent.I’ve seen it happen so many times before. When you get a farmer standing up, speaking to a farmer’s association and speaking, as it were in their home language, straight away, you have their attention. When you speak to a miner who goes underground to mine for gold or coal, and he’s speaking to a group of tough, hardened, wonderful miners, and he starts to talk about mining operations underground, straight away, he’s got their full attention. When I see a mother, well I’m thinking particularly of my wife at the moment, a housewife, a mother of five, a grandmother of thirteen, a great-grandmother of two. When she starts to speak to young mothers, she has their complete attention immediately. Why? Because she knows what she’s talking about and she knows their heart.Today, let us not concentrate so much on the technical aspect of things but let us start aiming at the heart of people, telling them about the love of Jesus Christ and what He means to you and to me, telling that woman that, ”it’s ok, I’ve been there where you’ve been before. I was also a young mother once, but my assurance was that Jesus Christ was with me in my darkest times when my child was sick, and I didn’t know what to do and I prayed.” And straight away those young mothers will remember that and never forget it. Today, aim at the heart, and not the head. Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day. Goodbye.