It's amazing isn't
it how we can take certain words and slang them over time and turn them into
something God never intended. What I mean is being a sheep in God's word is a
good thing, and the wolf a bad thing.
Mat_7:15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you
in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
Mat_10:16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the
midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
Luk_10:3 Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as
lambs among wolves.
Act_20:29 For I know this, that after my departing
shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
Luk_15:6 And when he cometh home, he calleth together
his friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found
my sheep which was lost.
Joh_10:14 I am the
good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
Joh_10:26 But ye believe not, because ye are not of my
sheep, as I said unto you.
Joh_10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and
they follow me
Today we have the
current word "Sheeple"
Definition-
'People compared to
sheep in being docile, foolish, or easily led.'
You hear a person
called a sheeple and you're implying they will follow anyone anywhere as if
that's a bad thing and in that connotation it is a bad thing. Being a sheep to
Christ as our Shepherd is an amazingly wonderful thing! Following Christ
wherever He calls us to go is desired! I want to be the Lord's sheep! I want to
be known by Christ as one of His sheep.
I want to hear my Shepherd's voice and follow Him!
I don't want to be a
wolf in sheep's clothing. I especially
do NOT want to thing I'm a sheep when I'm really a wolf! I don't want to be
consumed by self-deceit!
We can be deceived
when we DESIRE that deceit in our hearts underneath all the outward stuff we
project. If we want our hearts hardened, it will be hardened. We will NOT see
if we do not want to see. We will NOT hear if we don't want to hear. We will be blinded when we choose blindness.
People act as if God is causing their blindness, and hard hearts, their
deafness, but HE IS NOT. HE is only allowing what a person truly wants in their
hearts which HE knows!
No one will be able
to say God caused their downfall, not a single person. If we are not known by
our Savior when He returns it will be because we did not truly desire Him to
know us and we did not truly desire to know HIM.
If someone tells you
what you need to do if you love them- and you don't do that, do you really love
them? Your first instinct might be to
get all huffy and say if they love me they won't ask anything of me, they're in
the wrong. And truly that is our selfish response isn't it? We want to be loved
no matter what we say or do, no matter anything we want to be loved. We want to
be loved in spite of our faults. It's not wrong to want to be loved in spite of
our faults, we need our Savior to love us that way. But we do NOT spit in the Savior's face by
sinning willfully and telling Him He has to forgive us. He loves us, He died
for us, something He didn't have to do! He will forgive us if we sin and truly
repent of our sins. If we love HIM we
will do all we possibly can to submit to Him and allow Him to work in us
enabling us to keep those commandments He died so we could keep.
Please FATHER please
bless us, keep us, love us, know us!
In the name of our
Savior Jesus Christ!
Amen!
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