Day 4 Devotional

ALL WE LIKE SHEEP

Today’s Overview:

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The Good Shepherd loves us!

Isaiah 40:11 He tends his flock like a shepherd: He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart.

Luke 15 The Good Shepherd will go out searching for a lost sheep because he loves them.

“I found it” I said on the phone this morning while I held what was lost in trembling hands.  To anyone who knows the importance of a permanent residence card (green card) to the lively hood of an American Immigrant, they also can understand the anxiety that would come with the realization that it was completely gone.  The last hours have been accompanied with tears, with stress, with fear, and with worry, but now as I hold I thought was lost forever in my shaking hand, relief washes over me like a flood.

A new set of tears fill my eyes. The soul heaves an internal sigh and releases the build up stresses and fears that I didn’t even realize were so intense. Soon after the relief follows a desire to celebrate, and so, I did. Family, food, smiles, and laughter flow into the evening and fill me with joy, as together we rejoice for that which was lost now has been found.

Now imagine with me the joy of the Shepherd when his lost sheep has been located. Celebration rings out across the fields and whoops of joy are heard by all who pass by. Relief floods his being, for what was lost is now safe in his arms, and the dangers of the world are not able to reach it. The sheep baaas softly, so happy to know the joy and peace of the Shepherd, and the Shepherd smiles and celebrates, for the love he has for this little lamb, is deep and great.

Gone are the moments of tense anxiety and intense searching. Forgotten are the cuts, and bruises and blisters, obtained as this Good Shepherd had searched without end. All that matters in that moment is the togetherness of sheep and Shepherd.

“But what if the sheep runs off again?” you ask. 

Then the Shepherd will search again, and again, and will not give up. Because He is the Good Shepherd, and we are his sheep, and the love he has for us is a love that no human can ever comprehend.  What a truly remarkable God we serve.