Like discontented sheep ,we often burn the ground running in all the wrong places to satisfy our deepest needs.We are all lost sheep in need of a good shepherd.In the old testiment there were two shepherds which demonstrated important principles about shepherding while showing us a picture of the Good Shepherd.When Moses was a shepherd on the backside of a desert,God gave him 40 years experience tending sheep.Before David fought Goliath,he gave his shepherding credentials to King Saul.He told him how he rescued a lamb out of the mouth of a lion and killed all the enemies of the flock.The sheep didn't belong to either David or Moses,yet they loved as though they did.
The good news is the Good Shepherd of Israel can be our personal shepherd.Simular to David and his sheep,Jesus can deliever us out of the lion's mouth of the wicked one(1Pet.5:8) and deliever us out of the demonic activity of all the wild beast of our day(Ps.22:21). No weapon formed against God's flock shall prosper.He leads us beside still waters and into green pastures.If we are hungry,Jesus comes alongside as the bread of life to fill up ever longing.If we are thirsty,he is the living water to soak every dry place.If we are afraid,He is our shield and defender to bring us to safe and secure pastures.He can nurish and fill our soul with the good things by leading us down the trail of His word,where there are tasty morsels from everlasting to everlasting.
Jesus is our shepherd,let us follow where He leads us that we might thourghly furnished to every good work.Trust in Jesus he will never fail.He is the Good Shepherd who gave His life for the sheep, Now let us give our life to Him.
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