Episode 239: John 10

Today's meditation is on John Chapter 10

The enemy is a thief and a robber. He snuck into the earth. But Jesus entered the earth legally, born of a woman. He is the great shepherd, and we are the sheep of his pasture. I recognize his voice and follow him. He calls me by name and leads me through life. He walks ahead of me, and I follow him because I know his voice. I won't follow a stranger, but will run from him because I don't know his voice.

Jesus is the gate. Through him alone, I am saved. I can come and go freely, he leads me to good pastures. The thief comes to kill, steal and destroy. But Jesus came to give me life more abundant. 

He sacrificed his life for me. Unlike a hired hand who would run when he sees a wolf coming. He would abandon the sheep because they don’t belong to him and he isn’t their shepherd. And would allow the wolf to attack them and scatter the flock. A hired hand runs away because he’s working only for the money and doesn’t really care about the sheep.

But Jesus is the good shepherd. He knows his sheep, and I know him. Just as Father God knows Jesus and Jesus knows the Father. Jesus sacrificed his life for me to bring me into the sheepfold. I will listen to his voice. The body of Christ is one flock with one shepherd.

Jesus sacrificed his life so he could take it back again. No one could take his life from him. He sacrificed it voluntarily. He had the authority to lay it down and also to take it up again. For that is what Father God commanded.

The proof the Jesus was the Son of God was in the work he did in the Father’s name. But many people didn't believe him then, and many don't believe now, because they are not his sheep. His sheep listen to his voice; he knows them, and they follow him.

Jesus has given me eternal life, and I will never perish. No one can snatch me away from Jesus, for the Father has given me to him, and he is more powerful than anyone else. No one can snatch me from the Father's hand. 

The Father set Jesus apart and sent him into the world to carry out his work. I believe in Jesus and in the evidence of the miraculous works he has done. Jesus and Father God are one. And I am in God, and God is in me. 

Until next time, be blessed and be a blessing.

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