The Shepherd Who Stands in Our Place
11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12 He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. 13 He flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep.
John 10:11-13
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The Shepherd Who Stands in Our Place
The Good Shepherd does not flee when the wolf comes. He stands between death and the flock, laying down His life to save His sheep. Unlike the hired hand, who guards only for gain, Jesus guards because we are His own, bought not with gold or silver, but with His holy, precious blood. The cross reveals this Shepherd’s heart: He does not abandon us in sin’s darkness but enters it to destroy it. In that moment of suffering, when all seemed lost, the Shepherd accomplished our salvation. The wolf, sin, death, and the devil, was defeated there. Even now, when fear prowls near, we rest under His watchful eye, marked by the cross in Baptism, hearing His voice in the Word. The Shepherd who once stood in our place on Calvary still guards us with His life, leading us safely through the valley to His eternal fold.
John 10:11-13
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The Shepherd Who Stands in Our Place
The Good Shepherd does not flee when the wolf comes. He stands between death and the flock, laying down His life to save His sheep. Unlike the hired hand, who guards only for gain, Jesus guards because we are His own, bought not with gold or silver, but with His holy, precious blood. The cross reveals this Shepherd’s heart: He does not abandon us in sin’s darkness but enters it to destroy it. In that moment of suffering, when all seemed lost, the Shepherd accomplished our salvation. The wolf, sin, death, and the devil, was defeated there. Even now, when fear prowls near, we rest under His watchful eye, marked by the cross in Baptism, hearing His voice in the Word. The Shepherd who once stood in our place on Calvary still guards us with His life, leading us safely through the valley to His eternal fold.
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