Shepherd
“Where are you? Lord, where are you?”
Here I am once again, the lost sheep, crying out for my
Shepherd. Time after time again, I have strayed from the rest of the flock,
only to get caught up in the brambles, and cannot find my way back to my
Shepherd. Lost in the ways of the world, it seems impossible to find my way
back to my Savior alone. Finally, I realize that I am not able to find my way back to him alone,
so I wait until I hear His calm voice calling out to me, letting me know that
He is right by my side to lead me back to the flock of His sheep.
More often than not, I think that I know what is best for
me, and it leaves me lost, confused and hurting. But, if I put my trust in the
Lord, I won’t end up stranded in the ways of the world, crying out to Him to
come rescue me again.
The grass is always going to look greener in some other
pasture, and other people’s lives will always seem so much easier than mine;
but I need to remind myself that God knows how much I can deal with, and when I need His strength
the most each day. I have to learn to have a spirit of contentment. God gives
me what I need, yet it may not always be what I think I need. -As He says, “my
thoughts are not your thoughts neither are your ways my ways” (Isaiah 55:8). We
often think that we need something bigger or better, yet I have come to find
out that the simple every day practical things that God gives me help me way
more than things the world claims I need to help me.
Sadly, most of us don’t realize how much we have until we
get something taken away from us. We go chasing after something and drift away
from God, and don’t realize that we lost so much in wandering away from Him.
When we are under our Shepherd’s watchful eye, He provides us with daily
provisions, but when we stray from Him, we do not receive the bountiful blessings
that we receive when we are with Him.
I have come to find out that no matter how many times I
wander away from my Shepherd, He is
always out there looking for me, lovingly calling me to come back to Him.
The love that our Shepherd has for me and for you should be more than enough to
keep us close by His side, and as I think about all He has done for me, I
simply cannot understand how something could make me happier than to make Him
happy by following in His footsteps.
“For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor
angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
nor height, nor depth, not any other creature, shall be able to separate us
from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” –Romans 8:38-39.
~Lydia M.
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