This is the day the Lord has made and we get to rejoice and be glad in it! Amen! PTL and rejoice . Be still and know He is God as you lift praise and abide in His loving care. He knows you! He loves you! He is calling you by name to come and be loved, refreshed, healed and encouraged. Run to Him and abide as you prepare for the day ahead. He is with you and for you and always forgives and even corrects in love. He is working all things together for good! Yes rejoice! Don't lean on your own understand or wander off on your own. Acknowledge Him and run to Him. He's waiting with open arms! PTL!
Good Morning Flock of Jesus! We are the sheep and He is the Good Shepherd. He wants to lead us beside the still waters and to the green pastures. He walks with us through the darkest valleys. He comforts, protects, provides, guides, refreshes, pursues us, heals, hears, forgives and just wants to love on us all the time! Amen! Be still, know, receive, refresh and go live and love like Jesus . To God be the glory! He gathers us, anoints us for healing, corrects in love, leaves the 99 to find and rescue us! He is the Good Shepherd and we are His very loved flock. PTL! Meditate on Our Daily Bread Below and abide, worship and go refreshed and ready as you feed on His Word and walk in His paths for you . Know and follow His shalom. Amen!
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Listening to the Good Shepherd
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; [Jesus has] come that they may have life. John 10:10
I opened my online banking app and discovered two withdrawals over $500 each, which I hadn’t made. Panicked, I called the bank and discovered my identity had been stolen. With the bank’s help, I was able to reinstate my good standing, but the experience taught me to be alert to prevent such thefts in the future.
In John 10:10, Jesus warns that “the thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy.” Rebuking religious leaders who opposed Him for healing on the Sabbath (9:13-15), Jesus revealed their motive: to steal, kill, and destroy. Our spiritual enemy, Satan, plots to steal our understanding of God’s grace—and the freedom Jesus’ death provides for us. Hope and help come earlier in the passage where Jesus described Himself as the good shepherd who calls His sheep by name (10:2-4). The good shepherd’s sheep “will run away from [a thief] because they do not recognize a stranger’s voice” (v. 5).
We sometimes find ourselves victimized by the evil in our world. But our loving God invites us into a practice of discernment where we learn to recognize and avoid the voice of our enemy who wants to steal, kill, and destroy. As we tune our ears to the voice of our Good Shepherd, we can trust Him to lead us to life “to the full” (v. 10).
By Elisa Morgan
REFLECT & PRAY
Where in your life is “the thief” seeking to harm you? How will you listen for the voice of the Shepherd who longs to lead you to Himself and provide abundant life?
Dear God, please help me discern the voice of the thief and instead tune my ears to Your voice.
SCRIPTURE INSIGHT
In John 10, Jesus exposed the agenda of Satan through those who should’ve been shepherding believers well. The endgame of false teachers is “to steal and kill and destroy,” while Christ came so we “may have life . . . to the full” (v. 10). In Ephesians 4, Paul notes that Jesus gives the church leaders “to equip his people” (v. 12) and build them up through sound teaching so that they “will no longer be . . . blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming” (v. 14). , as in Christ’s day, sincere seekers of truth aren’t exempt from the schemes of those who don’t have their best interest at heart. The Spirit will give us discernment to recognize the true voice of the Good Shepherd.
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