'We are just like these sheep

We are just like these sheep

The herbage of the present field was all eaten, and the shepherd needed to get his sheep up to a higher place where there was good pasture. The way led over a steep and rocky bluff, however, and the poor sheep would not go over it.

Then the shepherd seized a lamb and carried it in his arms up the steep path to the higher ground. The little thing ran to the edge and looked down, bleating and calling for the older sheep. In a few moments the mother had gone up, and then all the flock followed her.

We are just like these sheep , and are slow to follow our Shepherd up the steep and rocky path towards the heavenly life. Then the Shepherd has to use loving urgency .

Sometimes he takes a beloved Christian to Heaven — to lead his friends and relatives there.

Or he takes away a man's riches — to save the man's soul.

Or he lays us on a sick-bed and shuts us away in the darkness — to compel us to think of spiritual things.

Or he sends trouble in some form — to get us to walk in holy paths.

If we can be saved in no other way, it is better that we lose all the flowers and the sunshine out of our life, and walk amid thorns and in darkness — so that we reach our heavenly home at last.

"He led them forth by the straight and right way, that they might go to a city of habitation!" Psalm 107:7

"Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it!" Matthew 7:13-14

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