It’s starting to turn dark. The daytime light is fading. You have struggled with all your might to find release but it’s no good. You’re snared on the barbed wire. And the more you struggle, the more the barbed wire digs in deep and searing pain shoots through your body. You had a Good Shepherd but you have thrown away all of your blessings. Here in the dark you begin to whimper because it feels that all is lost. You have lost your joy. You have lost friendship and companionship. And worst of all you feel completely devoid of all hope. You don’t know where you are and there is no sign of any help. As the darkness settles in over you, any sense of hope evaporates.
But the story of the lost sheep is also the story of the kind, compassionate, gentle and Good Shepherd. When we turn to him and look to him and listen to him we find that he lifts us up and out of our afflictive snare. He carries us up and out of affliction in order to restore our souls. The green pastures and still waters are where he leads us.
Director of Christian Mindfulness