That Great Shepherd of the Sheep

Heb 13:20 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
Heb 13:21 Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.


The God of peace...
God- who brought our Lord to life again after He was murdered.
God- who raised the GREAT Shepherd of the sheep to life.
God- of the everlasting covenant through the blood of our Lord Jesus.


This wonderful, most amazing, all powerful God can make us perfect in every good work to do HIS will.
This wonderful God can work in us what is well-pleasing in His sight.
Our God can do all this through our Savior, Jesus Christ, who deserves ALL glory forever and ever!


Did you read that? Our God, through our Savior CAN make us perfect to do HIS will. We have to be willing to be sheep. Seriously, we have to understand our submissive role as a creature. Yes, we were created with the ability to rebel- we were created with the ability to believe deception. Eve believed the deception of Satan - that NOT obeying God would result in her being a god.


Here read it…


Gen 3:5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.


Be as gods!


And ever since that tried and true deception people have continued to believe they are gods. Did Eve's disobeying God result in her becoming a god? No. Why then do so many believe they are their own god? That they are their own creator born of other creators. Yes, it's true we can join with one another and create life, but we had nothing to do with the first creation, nothing to do with HOW life is created within and from us. Parts of us are used in our ability to create but we cannot MAKE those parts, we cannot bring the seed of man into existence from nothing. Yet so many continue to believe they are their own god, in need of NO other god.


When someone says they don't believe in God what are they saying? They are denying their creator, denying they are a product of creation.


People find it incredibly hard to be sheep and Satan loves it that way.


We have a 'Great Shepherd', if we have a 'Great Shepherd' we must be the sheep of that 'Great Shepherd.' I don't know about you but I WANT to be a sheep of the Great Shepherd! I want to be a sheep that hears, that follows, that lets the Great Shepherd lead me, feed me, care for all my needs, protects me. I do NOT want to be a shepherd, but many, many do. Many want to be shepherds among other shepherds caring very little for the sheep they tend. There are good shepherds and there are BAD shepherds, make no mistake about it. I'm not suggesting there aren't leaders of Christ's followers- those called to lead but they are much lesser shepherds that are only tending to the GREAT Shepherd's flock in very small ways compared to the Great Shepherd.


We can be made perfect to do God's will, we truly can. God will do IN us what we can't do ourselves. Jesus died to make it possible for God to unite with us once again. Jesus died so we could live as God's children. YOU will never be old enough to stop being a child and this is true in believers and non-believers. Parents can die, but you will always have been their child. You can have your own children, grandchildren and so on, but you will always be a child. What is true in the physical realm is true in the spiritual realm. We can't escape it, but we sure try to. We love to claim our adulthood, wearing it like some sort of crown believing it frees us from the restrictions of being a child, from being immature. I will forever proclaim my childhood and God my Father!


By the grace of our Lord and Savior may we be in Christ all He would have us to be now and forever!

Amen.