The Shepherds – Jesus and Me

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In this book, Tim looked at the shepherd and shepherding from various angles - from ancient world, from Old Testament figures like Moses, from David, from Isaiah’s viewpoint, and from Jeremiah’s view point, from Ezekiel’s and Zechariahs viewpoint, those chapters are very helpful and beneficial to me. The author also looked at this topic from how the apostles said and acted in the New Testament. But as the topic, metaphors, mentioned in Chapter 1, the Bible uses lots of images and metaphors to help us to understand the true meaning of the shepherding and shepherd, we are reminded again and again all these metaphors and imageries point to one person, Jesus the big Shepherd.

We can learn a lot from those people in the Bible (e.g., David), and from those rich images and metaphors in the Bible, but Jesus is the only shepherd we can learn most. Shepherding is not about a skill set for the job as a minister, shepherding is a life style, shepherding is what and how Jesus is. Unless we truly commit our life to Jesus and learn from Him, we can never become a good shepherd. Unless we learn to submit ourselves totally to Christ, we can never become an under-shepherd for Christ because we think we can do better than Him. Unless we are broken by God totally through various obstacles in the wilderness and by those mad kings around us, we will only take Jesus as a booster to help us to fulfill our personal goals and ambition.