So you think you're
immune from self-centeredness? Do you think you are safe from going your own
way? Do you think that you'd never turn away from your Savior?
Peter thought he
would never deny Jesus- he was wrong, very, very wrong.
Isa 53:6 All we like
sheep have gone astray; we have turned everyone to his own way; and the LORD
hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
ALL of us have gone
astray! Sheep wander it's in their
nature. Sheep need a shepherd. Sheep need a sheepdog. Sheep left to their own
devices will definitely go astray.
Mat 18:12 How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep,
and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and
goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?
Mat 18:13 And if so be that he find it, verily I say
unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which
went not astray.
Mat 18:14 Even so it is not the will of your Father
which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.
Rom 3:10 As it is written, There is none righteous,
no, not one:
Rom 3:11 There is none that understandeth, there is
none that seeketh after God.
Rom 3:12 They are all gone out of the way, they are
together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Rom 3:13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their
tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
Rom 3:14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and
bitterness:
Rom 3:15 Their feet are swift to shed blood:
Rom 3:16 Destruction and misery are in their ways:
Rom 3:17 And the way of peace have they not known:
Rom 3:18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
Rom 3:19 Now we know that what things soever the law
saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped,
and all the world may become guilty before God.
We NEED a Shepherd,
and CHRIST is that Shepherd.
Christ is the
Shepherd who died to save His sheep.
Our lives meant and mean so much
to Him! Can we even begin to comprehend
this? Can we?!
We've been given
HOPE.
We don't have to
live HOPELESS!
So many choose
hopelessness, so many cling to this world, to THIS life refusing to believe in
the HOPE of a better world, a better life.
Over and over our
God has shown us in His word through history, that HE lives, HE loves!
Our CREATOR did not
have to die for us, but He did! He ransomed us. He paid the price for us. He could have shoved us aside, He could have
destroyed us and created something entirely different, but He didn't because we
were worth that much to Him. We have
PART of Him that can connect to a part of US.
Made in HIS IMAGE.
Isa 53:6 All we like
sheep have gone astray; we have turned everyone to his own way; and the LORD
hath laid on him the iniquity of us all
We need our
SHEPHERD!
We are guilty, He is
innocent!
We deserved death
eternal, He died that death so we could live.
Daily we die.
Rom 8:36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed
all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Daily we must die to
self and live for HIM. We are sheep for the slaughter, but sheep who have a
Shepherd. Sheep who have been given the promise of everlasting life in Christ
our Savior. Sheep whose Shepherd sacrifice Himself for us, to give us hope in ETERNAL
LIFE. This pasture we are living in is
corrupt and there are wolves every which way we turn. The wolves may kill us in
this life but the wolves can never take eternal life from us. The wolves cannot
take our HOPE from us. Our Shepherd HAS
SAVED US ALREADY and the wolves cannot take HOPE from us, they cannot take our
Eternal Life not ever, we are saved by GRACE…
Eph_2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and
that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God
1Jn_5:13 These things have I written unto you that
believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal
life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
By the grace of GOD!
We believe on His name, Jesus Christ our Savior now and forever!
AMEN.
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