| Devotional Hours with the Bible |
Chapter 15 |
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The Good Shepherd loves His sheep, loves them so much that He stops at no sacrifice in protecting them and saving them. “The good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.” The Eastern shepherd often has to fight battles for His flock. David tells of killing a lion and a bear in defense of his sheep. Sometimes the shepherd in defending his flock against wild animals is himself, wounded — sometimes he even loses his life in protecting them. Our Good Shepherd has wounds upon Him, and if we ask when He received them, His answer is, “In defending My own.”
At present Christ’s sheep are widely dispersed. They are scattered over all the world. But at last there will be a great home-gathering, when all the flocks shall be brought together. “Other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring… and there shall be one fold and one Shepherd.” One of the saddest things about the church as it is in the world today is the separation of believers into different denominations. In heaven all shall be brought together, from the north, the south, the east and west, and all shall be found at last in the one flock with the one Shepherd.
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