I made this picture a year ago at least. In Little Rock, Arkansas, while in that area preaching a Revival. It’s a shepherdess, obviously sculpted, with part of her flock. This is a metaphor the Bible uses time and times again. Let me show you what I mean.

Today’s Bible Lesson …

For example, Isaiah 40:11 says of our Lord: “He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.” How tender!

And the best known of all the Psalms. “The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.” Psalm 23:1-2

New Testament too. Where Jesus is the Good Shepherd. (“I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.”) Found in John 10:11, and said by Jesus of Himself!

Where Jesus is also the Great Shepherd. (“The God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant.”) Said by the Holy Spirit, of Jesus, in Hebrews 13:20.

Where Jesus is the Chief Shepherd. (“And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.”) Preached by Simon Peter, in his first Epistle, a man who certainly knew our Lord as Shepherd!

In Luke 15, the great Parable there, a shepherd finds his lost lamb. (“What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it? And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost.”) Luke 15:4-6, also spoken of Jesus undoubtedly! Then I am that once “little lost lamb” … now riding to Heaven, safely resting on the shoulders of the Son of God … my Shepherd!

May I tell you, discouraged reader this Wednesday morning, that Jesus CARES!

That He is WATCHING over your situation!

That He (well, I’ll just go back to the verse with which I started this little meditation), that Jesus will … “feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.”

What a joy, being in His flock!

Amen!

— Dr. Mike Bagwell

 

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