YOU NEED SHEPHERD HELP

IOI CHRISTIAN MORNING MEAL

TOPIC: YOU NEED SHEPHERD HELP

. . . . . .CONTINUE FROM YESTERDAY

Listen! The Good Shepherd wants to increase your faith and remove all of your doubts and fears. But how does he do that? How does this happen?

“The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lies down in the green pastures of his Word, the Holy Scriptures. He leads me besides the still waters of Holy Baptism; he that believes and is baptized will be saved. He restores my soul through the power of Holy Communion; he feeds me with his body and blood. He leads me in the path to his cross and resurrection; he forgives my sins for his name’s sake.”
You see, the Shepherd feeds his sheep with his Word and Sacraments. That’s why worship is so important. Here, we listen to the voice of the Shepherd as he calls. He feeds our hungry heart. He restores our soul. He bestows his gift of forgiveness. The Lord feeds us with his Word and Sacraments. In this way, faith is created and strengthened. Our hunger is satisfied. Our doubts and fears begin to fade away.
Jesus says, “I am the Good Shepherd. My sheep listen to my voice. I know them and they follow me. I give them eternal life and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand.” Our Shepherd promises to lead us in the paths of righteousness. Christ goes forth and we follow. He leads us in our daily life. He guides and directs us. He says, “Come, follow me! I will show you the way to go.”

The problem here is that we sheep often prefer to go our own way. We think that we know better than God. We seek greener pastures elsewhere. And so we drift away from the path of righteousness. We fall back in the old ways. We get tangled up in the bushes of sin and unbelief. We get lost. We get hurt.

That’s when we forsake God’s Word; we don’t read the Bible everyday. We neglect worship and prayer. We forget about our baptism. We ignore the power of Holy Communion. We don’t live in the promises of the New Covenant.
We all, like sheep, have gone astray; each of us has turned to his own way. We have drifted off the path of righteousness and have fallen into the ditch. We have run off the road and are tangled up in the bushes. We are lost. We are in trouble. We need help

LET US PRAY
FATHER IN JESUS NAME, SEND YOUR DIVINE HELP TO OUR HOPELESS SITUATION TODAY IN JESUS NAME. AMEN

GOOD MORNING FRIENDS