Shepherds

The shepherds of the time, the love of the lost sheep, the story Jesus says with it just makes this a more loving and comforting story to love and read more often. Every time I read it it brings me comfort and warmth of gods almighty love and power and his spirit working through me.

Sheep back then, were  something everyone would trade for something better, they would trade them in the temple, they would sell them for coins because they are dumb animals. They were also known as the sacrifice in the temple as well. People would make clothes out of the wool and only eat them at special meals. Today sheep/lamb are eating like bread back in that day, it's just become on of those things that has become are everyday food.....

The first time I heard of shepherds was when i was in kindergarten. When I heard the story of the birth of Jesus, and the wise men and shepherds going to him, and worshiping the baby, of course like most children i had no clue what a shepherd was exactly, so it was like a whole new world....


I the sovereign Lord, tell you that myself will look for my sheep and take of them in the same way as shepherds watch their sheep....... - Ezekiel 34:11-12


   The lord will watch and protect us even when we are down and run away from him. the Lord God is always there to protect us and to keep us safe and to keep us on the right path. So that on the last day we may go through that narrow gate and join God and all of his heavenly angels.

God is the source of all things human and divine and looks after all things human and divine. He came on earth in fact, to proof the he is human, Gods son, and that he is also divine. For he Rose from the dead, for he gave us Gods word, yet some of us still don't believe......

    So again there are the shepherds when Jesus was being born, watching their sheep. Watching them gaze on the grass and enjoy the life of sheep that they are.There isn't much written own about the shepherds except that they were keeping watch of their sheep and was told a message by the angels.

 So Jesus said again" I am telling you the truth: I am the gate for the sheep. All others who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the gate. those who come in by me will be saved: they will come in and go  out and find pasture. The thieve comes only in order to steal , kill, and destroy. I have come in order that you might have life - life in all it's fullness. I am the good shepherd ready to die for his sheep".....- John 10: 7-11

This is just a small part of the reading. Jesus is saying to us that he is the one great shepherd that came from the father and is here to bring his sheep in through the gates of heaven. He his the gate that will lead us (the sheep) into the great green pastures of the kingdom. before Jesus came to earth all  of them were evil everyone else was evil before Jesus's time (except the prophets.) That is why Jesus came, to get all the evil out of everyone's heart and to make them clean to come into the heavenly kingdom with him for eternal life.

The robber is Satan  trying to snatch us away from God, making us sin, and do bad things... he is the one who will be put down for a thousand years in the fire of furnace and then walk among the earth to snatch us into hell, but if we believe in God and not fall into the temptation to sin, we will walk with god and live with him forever.


Jesus the great king is ready to lay down his life for his sheep, so that they might live forever and have eternal life. Well, he did. he layed down his life for us so that we might live forever with him in the green pastures and not  being snatched by Satan. He is ready any time to lay his life for us sop that we may live with him. More into the reading it says that no one lays down his life, or can take it away, it his him that makes the sacrifice.


  Then the most famous story of them all... The lost sheep. When Jesus counts only 99 sheep and goes and searches for the 100th sheep and leaves the 99 behind.. and brings that lamb back on his shoulders, gently bringing it back. That just goes to show that the Lord has so much love for us and will bring us back to him and bring us back to the right road with the others.....He loved us so much he would die for us......


Lets not forget my favourite Psalm    The Lord is my shepherd  nothing shall I want....  i just love that so much.... yo find in  the bible   go to Psalms 23:1-6

May the lord keep us on the right path, and come to find us when we are not! Amen!