*EXCELLENT LIFE KEYS* 🔑🗝️
Wed/11th/May/2022
*Francis Reign* (Ap & Coach)
_"Raising excellent agents of change and transformation, well equipped with Truth and Wisdom."_
*UNDERSTANDING THE ACTS AND WORDS OF JESUS CHRIST (97)*
_And Jesus went throughout all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the Kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction. When He saw the crowds, He had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd_ (Matt 9:35-36).
When Jesus looks at our world today, no doubt He feels the same compassion for the same reason. Jesus was concerned that people lacked true leadership. The Bible often times likens the leadership of people to the shepherd leading his sheep. In our vernacular, when we say that people are like sheep, we mean that they follow others blindly. However, in the Bible, the shepherd is pictured as dedicated to his flock, and his sheep hear his voice, and they follow him, and will not follow a stranger (John 10:1-5).
So in speaking of people as sheep, and their leaders as shepherds, the Bible is not being derogatory, but is evoking the respect that rural communities of Bible times had for the shepherds who tended their flocks in a responsible manner. Good shepherds loved their sheep, called them by name, protected them from wolves, led them to pasture, and rescued those who strayed. So the image of the shepherd and the sheep is a very good metaphor of leadership responsibility. We, as the sheep, have a responsibility to accept and follow right leadership. This is especially true of our relationship to the greatest Shepherd of all - Jesus Christ. Humanity apart from Christ is like sheep without a shepherd, lost and hopeless. Jesus is our great Shepherd, our only hope and means of salvation. The result of Christ's compassion for the people was to teach them. He have them what they truly needed most - Himself. The Shepherd has a responsibility, but so do the sheep. God requires parents to shepherd their children well, and children to accept and submit to that leadership.
*EXCELLENCE KEY* 🗝️
_Humanity apart from Christ is like sheep without a shepherd, lost and hopeless. Jesus is our great Shepherd, our only hope and means of salvation._
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*Excellence is within you. Bring it out >>*
#1470 ELK.
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