Tuesday, November 7, 2023
We Need A Good Shepherd to Guide Us Through the Many Coming Storms.
Ezekiel 34:23
I will set up over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he shall feed them: he shall feed them and be their shepherd.
Matthew 9:36
When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.
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Words of Grace For Today
Shepherds, in Jesus day, lived rough, with the flock on the hills, leading them to green pastures and fresh water by day and guarding them from danger by night.
Being a shepherd was not a highly sought after or held in high esteem occupation. Quite the opposite. It was one of the lowest of the lowly ways to make a living.
Being compared to sheep, though, that is a real low insult, that hits out of bounds and lays one flat as fodder for the vultures.
Sheep were and still are very dumb animals. They need protection all the time from predators. They need to be led to food and water. And …
When we were young my brother demonstrated how they follow, absolutely stupidly.
As we were bringing the sheep into the barn he sat out of sight just inside the door. After the first ten sheep passed through the doorway he stuck a broomstick across the doorway about a foot and a half high. The next sheep jumped over it to follow those ahead, as did the next five. Then he pulled the broomstick out of the doorway, and …
the rest of the flock jumped over the none-existent broomstick to follow the sheep ahead into the barn.
Sheep are real stupid.
So being compared to sheep is a real low blow.
The problem is …
the comparison fits us just right.
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We need a Good Shepherd to have compassion on us helpless people, following most stupidly the most stupid of stupid leaders.
Thank God, God sends us one in Jesus, who saves us,
again.
And
again today, many times.