Jesus - Our Good Shepherd

Looking at the WORD of God, we can see that Jesus came for us all and not for Himself. He came into this realm so that we all can be saved and the Old testament points to Jesus from the beginning and then the New testament reveals Jesus coming onto the scene. There is no denying the fact that everywhere we read in His WORD we see Jesus. The whole Bible is all about Jesus and who He was to whom He became in the New testament. He was with the Father in the Old Testament and in the New Testament He is revealed as the Son of God who became to us The Son of man.

Jesus Himself said in the book of John 10: 1 - 6

Most assuredly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. Yet they will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.” Jesus used this illustration, but they did not understand the things which He spoke to them.

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I assure you and most solemnly say to you, he who does not enter by the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up from some other place [on the stone wall], that one is a thief and a robber. But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep [the protector and provider]. The doorkeeper opens [the gate] for this man, and the sheep hear his voice and pay attention to it. And [knowing that they listen] he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out [to pasture]. When he has brought all his own sheep outside, he walks on ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice and recognise his call. They will never follow a stranger, but will run away from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers.” Jesus used this figure of speech with them, but they did not understand what He was talking about.

In this passage we can see Jesus as

- The true shepherd

- The door

- The way

- The leader

- The protector

- The provider

Jesus wants to be all of the above to us in our lives. He desires to be if we want Him to be in our lives. He is love and He loves us all too much and came into our lives as our true Shepherd. He did not enter into our lives forcefully like the other shepherds of our time. He came into our lives when we invited Him in as our Lord and Saviour.

We have a shepherd that cares for all of us deeply and does not want us to go astray. He came to save us by dying on the cross for us all and He rose so that we can know and believe that He is our True Shepherd. And truthfully there is no other God that can die for us like Jesus did.

He says in this passage that He as come to be our Shepherd to lead us by going before us. Why would He go before us? First, because of His love for us and secondly He knows the right path to walk better than we do and thirdly as he goes before us any attack from the enemy who is Satan will not be able to come near us , simply because He deals with the enemy before he can touch us. This is awesome .

The True Shepherd is Jesus!

And He said something beautiful here in this passage. The sheep follow Him, for they know His voice. The question now is this, Do we know His voice? To know His voice is to know Him and to know Him is to have given our lives to Him and to stay in His WORD, meditating on His WORD day and night, to know Him is to spend time in His presence, to know Him is to surrender all to Him and to know Him is to believe that He loves us at all times.He said so in the book of Romans chapter 8: 31 - 39

To know Him as the True Shepherd is to recognise His voice in the midst of all that is going on around us. Jesus who is our Shepherd cannot but speak to us because we are His sheep. He can use various means of speaking to us in his WORD, an audible voice like He did with his prophets of old, let's remember that He spoke to Paul and instructed Paul has to what to do for His Kingdom. he speaks to us in dreams and he can use his prophets who represent him to talk to us.