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The Good Shepherds care
Recap: Phillip Keller, A shepherds look at psalm 23.
We need to understand who the good shepherd is and why he is the good shepherd.
Once we see him as he ought to be see then we will rightfully give him the authority of our lives.
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Identity marked by the one who leads us and cares for us.
We are a people of Identity.
we are also a society of labels.
With this may be where you find your description of who you are.
I am a drunk
I am an addict
I am an orphan
I am weak
I play football
I wear carhartt
I wear oakleys
Seeking the approval of those around us by finding an identity in something note-worthy.
Something commendable.
See in Christ we are no loner identified by these petty things but now who we are in Christ.
I am the sheep of His pasture.
Oakleys or not that is not what defines me but who i am in the eyes of God.
“Under the good shepherds care we will not lack, for our needs will be met, but also we will not desire nothing else.
Read with me psalms 23 as we find how good our shepherds care is.
REad psalms 23
Pray.
He makes me to lie down in green pastures.
It is significant that to be at rest there must be a definite sense of freedom from fear, tension, aggravations, and hunger.
The unique aspect of the picture is that it is only the shepherd himself who can provide release from these anxieties
Free from fear
Timidity of the sheep.
One stray jackrabbit bolting from behind a bush can send a whole flock stampeding.
If one startled sheep runs fearfully a dozen others will follow in blind fear.
Sheep were prone to attacks from all kinds of predators that could slaughter a whole flock if the shepherd was not diligent in watching his sheep.
There is nothing that would calm the sheep more than the presence of the shepherd.
He makes me to lie down.
The governing force that supplies fearful sheep with the ease to rest.
What fears often overtake us?
In the Christian life there is no substitute for the keen awareness that my shepherd is nearby.
There is nothing like Christ’s presence to dispel the fear, the panic, the terror of the unknown.We live in a most uncertain lifeGenerally it is the unknown, and unexpected that produces the greatest panic.
How many times are we walking on pins and needles fearful of what lies beyond the next corner?
Psalm 3:3
psalms 3:3-
2 timothy 1:7, “ For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.”
The idea of sound mind is that of a mind at ease, at peace, no perturbed or harassed or obsessed with fear and foreboding for the future
The idea of sound mind is that of a mind at ease, at peace, no perturbed or harassed or obsessed with fear and foreboding for the future
The second is Rivalry.
They have a butting order.
One old ewe will control a whole flock by butting her way to the best feeding and bedding grounds and others will follow in rank.
Many times a young ewe could be feeding contently or resting and the older one would come over arch her back, tilt her head, dilate her eye, and approach her with a stiff-legged gait.
All this was saying Move over, Make way or else.
If the ewe didn’t move then she would be butted unmercifully or if the challenge was accepted then after a couple butts the little ewe would run away.
Never cease to amaze the writer that how his presense alone would attract the sheep steal their attention and immediately they would forget their butting order.
Think of the petty pursuits of men as we try to keep up with the joneses or the pecking order we place in the societal ranks in our businesses, our churches, and our organizations.
The recognition and self-assertion we strive for as we butt, quarrel, compete with others.
The jealously and envy that arises as our hearts are not contented but desire for more.
It is funny as many Christians find themselves in these pursuits even with the wisdom and knowledge found within Gods word.
But when the presence of the shepherd comes all the sudden those pursuits don’t matter as much.
Same is true in our churches.
How we boast and elevate certain gifts and abilities in the church.
Romans tells us not to think to highly of ourselves because it is God who distributes the gifts to each one.
Not obtained by our own power.
All gifts matter to God as they work seamlessly together for the common goal of glorify Him in the kingdom work.
We easily get distracted as life happens though.
AS trials and temptations knock on our doorsteps and calamities befall our homes.
I think of Job’s response to Gods revelation at the end of the book of Job.
Chapter 38-42
My eyes have seen the KING.
No longer did his problems seem so big.
no longer did his trial seem difficult.
No longer did he see himself as he did.
Gods has made provisions for his sheep that they may rest free from fear, tension, aggravations, and hunger.
Fear not for I have overcome the world
Think of all the fears that overtake us and how in the presence of God they no longer exist.
They no longer haunt or direct our steps but confidence and hope fill their place.
He promises that he will not allow us to be tempted beyond what we can bear.
Cast all your cares upon him for he cares for you.
He who is hungry, he who thirsts come to me and your thirst will be quenched.
He will gives us of the river of living water.
Does this not put you at rest.
Dont go to the immediate releases our culture supplies to attempt to put us at ease but rather turn to our shepherd and his presence that puts our hearts at Ease.
HE makes me to lie down in green pastures, not only that but also,
HE leads me beside the still waters
dont forget woman at the well i am the fount of living water.
Sheep have a need of water in order to survive like most animals.
There bodies are made up of 70 percent water and their water supply needs to be replenished or else dehydration can kick in.
In these instances they will drink off of the dirty filthy holes that carry many deadly parasites.
There are 3 main sources that you would find your water.
The quiet still waters.
The deep, clean, pure, quiet waters.
These were places that only the shepherd knew about and many times engineered.
The dew droplets that come in the early mornings upon the grass.
Sheep can go months on end just from the dew droplets that they would take in from feeding at sunrise and sunset.
Many times the shepherd would have to wake early to ensure his flock was up and feeding to take advantage of this clean, pure, quiet water.
The deep wells.
This was hard, hot, and sweaty work.
The shepherd would strip naked and go down to the deep well and bail the water so that his sheep would be satisfied.
As a shepherd watches the thirst quenched on the still waters he recognizes that everything hinged and depended upon the diligence of the owner, the shepherd.
Had he left them to themselves they would have wallered in the holes that only would have brought greater problems.
This principle applies in our lives as well, though the path we may be led down is dark, dangerous, deep and somewhat disagreeable we must remember he is there with me.
His work, his effort, his energy is extended on my behalf even in these dark places and that he is very much at work in the situation to give me the source that truly satisfies.
I must remember that only He can satisfy me.
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