ALL SUFFICIENCY FOR ALL HIS SHEEP

Verse for Today: Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Psalms 23:1 - The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.

We are given the privilege to take the Lord Jesus as our personal Lord with whom we can have the most intimate relationship. We are granted the privilege to claim Him as our Lord openly with utmost confidence because of the intimate relationship which is given to us as the greatest gift in this life. He comes to us as the good Shepherd who is the embodiment of all goodness. Once we accept Him as our Lord, He not only becomes our Master, but our Shepherd also. When we hand all aspects of our lives over to Him, He becomes our Lord, with all authority to handle our lives His way according to His will and pleasure. But He is not there to exert ruthless control or pressure over us in a unilateral way as done by the worldly masters. Instead He institutes a relationship with us where He not only wants to impress divine influence over us, but also treats us just as a benevolent Shepherd would handle His beloved and precious sheep. He gives us tender love and care as He knows our weak and fragile frame. So He deals in and with us softly and tenderly. He knows all our needs in variety, quantity and quality and provides for each need in the right measure. His ultimate desire is that we find in Him solace and all that we would want to find in all situations. He has abundance of resources to meet all our needs and He knows what to give us at what time and in what measure. When we have such a caring and loving Shepherd, and when we are in His fold, we would find our absolute sufficiency in Him. His sheep get used to His voice and follow Him according to His instructions. They know Him so intimately as to recognize the tone of His voice to discern what He says. Sometimes He gives instructions, and at other times He sends warnings. When we are desperate and lonely, His voice would come with great tenderness, love and affection. He speaks in such a kind manner that His sheep find it fulfilling, strengthening and rejuvenating, and it takes away all their fears and cares. With such a benevolent Shepherd as their personal Shepherd, the sheep will be able to always say that they would not lack any good thing.

Dear friend, are you enjoying a sweet relationship with this Great Shepherd? If you are an obedient and submissive sheep, you would have no difficulty enjoying your relationship with this wonderful Shepherd. You will find Him walking in front of you and leading you by His example, as He is gentle and humble. He is your provider, healer, peace, righteousness and victory all the time. He is the good Shepherd who gave His life for you and me, His beloved sheep. He became our Shepherd by giving Himself for us and purchased us from the clutches of sin and Satan. He is such a self-sacrificing Shepherd who has only one desire for us, that we would follow Him, walk after Him and become like Him. He being the way, we will never loose our pathway if we follow Him. He will lead us and take us to His eternal home from where no force in this Universe will be able to separate us from Him. He reassures us that all our needs will be met while we follow Him and we will not need to go any where else or after any other person. His ways are perfect and His provisions are totally satisfying. Today He is asking us to examine whether we have grieved this gentle and humble Shepherd by disobeying Him or taking detours from His pathway. Let us renew our vow to follow Him all the days of our lives.

John 10:11 - I am the good Shepherd; the good Shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.

Thought for Today
'The right sheep and the right shepherd' is the right combination for right living with right wants and right fulfillment.

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