King David sang “The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want. “ He is saying that God will provide for his needs and with those needs filled, he wants for nothing. But, as a Shepherd the Lord takes charge to make me lie down in green pastures and he leads me beside the still waters. There is the problem. I don’t want green pastures and still waters. I want to look for excitement in the woods. I want to shoot the rapids. Sometimes I want to look for greener pastures on my own. That is why the Shepherd takes watch over the sheep. He wants us to have peace and tranquility and we want chaos and lots of stuff. Like sheep who wander, we are incapable of taking care of ourselves without getting into mischief.
Sometimes we get to thinking that green pasture is there by our doing and not by the Shepherd’s leading and we get to feeling we found that pasture on our own. We believe we are self sufficient. We take the Shepherd for granted. We forget that the Lord, our Shepherd is there to protect us from ourselves. It is not that we have evil intent; we just forget or get the mistaken idea that we should not bother the Lord with our daily situations in life.
We have to remember the Shepherd guides the sheep because there are no fences where we are, and without his guidance, the sheep will stay in one area and destroy the pasture or stray off.
The most important thing is under the Shepherd’s care, we have no evil to fear. In John 10:11 Jesus states “I am the Good Shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.” Our Shepherd laid down his life on the cross so that we could have salvation. He was true to his word and will be true to us if we have faith and believe in his love and trust his leading us to his good purpose.
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