He says, “He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. When a person is born again and becomes a follower of Jesus Christ, here’s the way the apostle Peter describes that homecoming. No matter how glorious our destiny as the children of God, and as those who will one day judge angels (1 Corinthians 6:3), we will never outgrow our sheep-like need of a Shepherd. They are children of God (1 John 3:1), heirs of the universe (Romans 8:16 1 Corinthians 3:20-23), co-rulers with the King of kings (Revelation 3:21), the bride of Christ (John 3:29 Revelation 21:9), shining like the sun in the kingdom of their Father (Matthew 13:43).Īlways more than sheep. We will always be sheep by God’s design.Īnd those who are happy to be sheep, and who hear the voice of the Great Shepherd calling them, and who follow him as their only hope, and trust in his sacrifice on their behalf-those sheep are now, and always will be, more than sheep. He never intended that we would be sheep for a season and then cease being sheep and become something less needy, less dependent.
His purpose from the beginning and for all time is that all human beings would always be sheep in need of a Shepherd. God intended from before the foundation of the world that you and I and all people, from the greatest to the least, would always be sheep. Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever.
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