Feeds:
Posts
Comments

Archive for the ‘Sheep’ Category

We have a Shepherd (Not Everyone Does)

Posted in Good Shepherd, Sheep, tagged on December 17, 2010| Leave a Comment »


Psalm 23 must be the most quoted of all the Psalms and for good reason. In six (6) short verses it describes God’s blessing and care for those who are his.

“The LORD is my shepherd” – Psalm 23:1a

While people are often referred to as sheep not all have shepherds. They are described as having no one to give them purpose, no one to defend them from preditors, no one to bind up their wounds or give them peace.

But when [Jesus] saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd. – Matthew 9:36

Jesus has compassion and takes those who see their need and call to him to be their shepherd.

“I am the good shepherd; I know my own sheep, and they know me” – Jesus (John 10:14)

– fritz

Read Full Post »

Everyone is someone’s sheep

Posted in Sheep, tagged , on June 10, 2010| Leave a Comment »

“The Lord is my Shepherd,” – Psalm 23:1a

In the short time Bob Dylan passed through Christianity he wrote a profound song, Gotta Serve Somebody, with the chorus:

…You’re gonna have to serve somebody,
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody.

The Bible put it this way:

“his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness1

Like a teen thinks dressing like every other teen somehow expresses individuality, one may feel under no rule but one’s own. That is an illusion, ask any advertiser; they have known for years we all follow someone or something like sheep!

Thank God, because of Jesus, we can become his sheep; He’s a better shepherd than the other ones!

– fritz

1 Romans 6:16

Read Full Post »