Posts with the category “99-shepherd”

He tends his flock like a shepherd. He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them in the fold of his garment. He gently leads the nursing ewes. The idea of God as a shepherd didn't begin in the New Testament. It runs through the entire Bible like a thread that holds the whole story together. Long before Jesus stood up and made His claim in John 10, the people of God already knew this language....  Read More

"What man among you, who has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open field and go after the lost one until he finds it?" Shepherds in the ancient world counted their sheep constantly. Morning and night. Leaving the pasture and returning to the fold. It wasn't a habit born out of anxiety, it was the natural rhythm of someone who cared about each one by name...  Read More

"I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and my own know me." There is something about being known that reaches a place inside of us nothing else can touch. You can walk into a room filled with hundreds of people and still feel completely invisible. You can be surrounded and still feel alone. But the moment someone calls your name, something shifts. You go from being a face in a crowd to being seen...  Read More