“When I understand, Jesus is the good shepherd, I was overjoyed to be in his pen, because he is the one gave his life for the sheep, purchased me through his blood and become my owner, who will not abandon me on the middle, who cares and know me personally.”
Today as we enter into a new month, I was meditating for a new promise, but God gave me an eternal ever existing promise, “I am the good shepherd”, when I ponder on this, I was overjoyed to understand I am safely in the pen of the good shepherd.
Some years ago one of our present members transferred from a big city to our place. He was searching for a fellowship, when he found us, came to me and said, Pastor, I found a good place to where I will be lead to the green pastures, added to that, he said, there are few places where we can get the word of God, mostly we see a kind of wilderness with in the Christianity. I wondered, how much passion this man have on the God’s word, praise God, for such passionate believers in the church.
In my meditation, I found, Jesus is a good shepherd, because, he is the one gave his life for the sheep. I was imagining a real shepherd, there God revealed a secret to me that, when the wolves or lions come with hunger of sheep, this shepherd will stand in between the sheep and the wolves or lions, so that the wild animal could not attack the sheep but will caught the shepherd and satisfy its hunger, mean time the sheep will ran away and escape from that wild animal. This is how Jesus did to me, when Satan came run to me in hunger, he stood in between me and Satan, he said, take me, let him leave, so that, I am escaped. What I good shepherd I have.
And also, Jesus is the good shepherd, because he purchased me through his blood and become my owner. So that, he is not a hired one, but the one paid the cost of me to buy. Of course, I am his creation, but I was lost from his hand, so that, 2000 years ago he came to this world and bought me by paying his life to me. So I doesn’t need to doubt about this good shepherd for my safety, because I am his property, he won’t allow me again to be lost. He will fight until the end to establish his ownership on me.
Also Jesus is the good shepherd, who will not abandon me on the middle, because he needs me for his prospers. My enemy is his enemy. You know how, Satan have an enmity with God and the son of God, because, when he was fallen, God created me in his place and adorned me with his glory. Though he cheated Adam and Eve, the second Adam Christ restored to regain the glory through the cross. So Satan become the common enemy of God and me. So, I am sure, as I am in His kingdom, every defeat of me will be a defeat of the king my Lord Jesus Christ. So he won’t abandon me in any cause in the middle of the battle.
Not only that, Jesus is the good shepherd, who cares for his sheep, because he who is comforting me with his rod and staff. His rod is an instrument to exercise the authority, to guide, to rescue and to protect me on every paths of my life. His staff is to support me on all my unhealthy walks and struggles to move forward. So that I know, he who cares for me.
Above all, Jesus is the good shepherd, who know me personally, he know my ups and downs, good and bad, better and worst. No other knows me better than, because I cannot hide anything from him. So for me, I too know him as my friend and my elder brother, who doesn’t put me down on seeing my other side, because his love to me is real not a passing cloud.
Dear friends, I found this Jesus as my Good shepherd in this month, if you are under his pen strengthen you faith, or if out of the pen he is planning for you too to come his pen. Jesus is promising, “I am the good shepherd, let this month, be a blessed days of walking in the green pastures.
