The young girl dresses up like a princess and wants her daddy to notice. She wants to hear him tell her she is beautiful. The little boy is playing in the park with his mom nearby. As he jumps off the play set, he wants to hear his mom tell him how brave he is as he makes the big jump to the ground.
As we get older, the little boy or girl in us really does not go away. We want to have someone notice our work. We do not want to be anonymous; we want someone to know our name.
In the tenth chapter of John, Jesus called himself the good shepherd. There is a relationship between the sheep and the shepherd. The shepherd knows his sheep and the sheep know the shepherd. We are told in the shepherd knows the sheep by name.
Think for a minute what this means. Jesus is the Word that was with God in the beginning. Through Him all things were made. Jesus is the Word that was God. Jesus healed the sick, gave sight to the blind, gave hearing to the deaf and he controlled the weather. Jesus, who is almighty God, knows us by our name. That is awesome.
Have you allowed Jesus to call you by name? Is Jesus your shepherd? Or do you try to be your own shepherd. You should place your trust and your life in the care of the Good Shepherd.
"Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber. But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers." – John 10:1-5
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
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