In case you didn’t know …

A 19TH CENTURY biblical scholar tells of traveling one day in Israel and coming across a shepherd and his sheep…

He fell into conversation with him and the man showed him the fold into which the sheep were led at night.  It consisted of four walls, with a way in.

The visiting scholar asked him, “Is this where the sheep go at night?”  “Yes,” said the shepherd, “and when they are in there, they are perfectly safe.”  “But there is no door,” said the visitor.  “I am the door,” said the shepherd.

He was not a Christian man and wasn’t speaking in the language of the New Testament.  He was speaking from a shepherd’s viewpoint.  The scholar looked and him and then asked, “What do you mean you are the door?”

“When the light has gone,” said the shepherd, “and all the sheep are inside, I lie in that open space, and no sheep ever goes out but across my body, and no wolf comes in unless he crosses my body; I am the door.”  Tom Moore

“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.  To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.  And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. Yet they will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.”  John 10:1-5

Mike Benson

 

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