One of the most remarkable descriptions of our God is that He wants to be our Shepherd.
The Bible opens with Genesis, and Jacob’s life fills half the book, from Genesis 25-50.
In Jacob’s final days, he made an astounding confession. Please open there with me to Genesis 48:15-16 (NKJV):
And he blessed Joseph, and said: “God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, The God who has fed me all my life long to this day, 16 The Angel who has redeemed me from all evil, Bless the lads; Let my name be named upon them, And the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; And let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.”
What is astounding is that the word used in Jacob’s testimony of God’s faithfulness for all of his 147 years of life was that the Lord had been his ra’ah (Hebrew word for “fed and led as a shepherd”).
Think about what that means:
Jacob testifies that the Lord was his shepherd, who had guided, led, protected, blessed, and accomplished His will throughout Jacob’s life. Despite Jacob’s personal struggles, deceitfulness, deception, fears, and failures, God had faithfully guided, blessed, used, protected, and lovingly forgiven him. Wow, that is a fantastic testimony.
GOD WANTS TO GUIDE US THRU LIFE AS OUR SHEPHERD
David enlarges the concept of God as Shepherd to mean a personal shepherd:
God can stay through life with us,
God can supply our every physical need,
God can satisfy the deepest emotional needs of our soul,
God can secure us through the gravest of dangers, and finally
God can safely walk us to our eternal dwelling place that He has built just for us.
Wow, that is quite an arrangement!
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