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The Good Shepherd
One of the most familiar and loved chapters in all of Scripture is Psalm 23.
“The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.”
Psalm 23:1-2 ESV
King David, the author of this psalm, wasn’t lacking in power or prestige. And yet, before silencing Goliath, being anointed as Israel’s king, and leading troops to victory in the trenches of war, David was a lowly shepherd boy. Turns out, he knew a lot about sheep.
David understood that sheep need a shepherd to survive. Without guidance and protection, sheep are prone to wandering off, following each other off cliffs, being washed away by strong currents, or becoming a predator’s next meal. 1 Samuel tells us that David fought off lions and bears to protect the livestock that had been entrusted to him.
Comparing himself to a sheep, David explains that his needs are fully satisfied in God. He lacks nothing—he is filled with contentment and peace—because God provides for and protects him.
In John 10:11, Jesus makes a strong declaration, saying, “I am the good shepherd.” He describes how His sheep know His voice, and that He has one flock from many folds.
Jesus not only leads and guides His people, but He also loves and laid down His life for His people.
You can choose to brave this world alone, boasting of your independence and self-sufficiency. History proves that kind of strategy never ends well. But you also have another choice: you can humble yourself under the authority, protection, and sovereignty of the Good Shepherd who always has your best in mind.
“For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven, if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked. For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life. Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee. So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. For we walk by faith, not by sight. We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord. Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the ...
“Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the LORD; Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why then doth their king inherit Gad, and his people dwell in his cities? Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel be heir unto them that were his heirs, saith the LORD. Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together. Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures, saying, Who shall come unto me? Behold, I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts, from all those that be about thee; and ye shall be driven out every man right forth; and none shall gather up him that wandereth. And ...
