The Good Shepherd

I greet you in Jesus' precious name. It is Saturday morning. The 2nd of November, 2024, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan with a thought for today.

We start in the book of Ezekiel 34:11:

“For thus says the Lord God: “Indeed I Myself will search for My sheep and seek them out.”

Then we go straight to the Gospel of John 10:11:

”I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.”

Beautiful scriptures!  

The Good Shepherd, He will search for them and He will find them and He will save them because they belong to Him. They do not belong to you or to me. I’m speaking particularly here now to mothers and to fathers, and maybe you’ve got a son or daughter who has gone into the far country, a prodigal child that is rebellious, that is not listening, that does not want to have anything to do with the Lord, and they’ve gone into a foreign place. The Lord is reminding you today, mother and father, just pray for that child.

Maybe it's young people, and they are worried about their parents. Their parents are digging their heels in and they will not bow the knee to Jesus, and you can see that hometime is close for them and you are desperate for their salvation. The Lord says, “They are my sheep and I will find them and I will save them.”

What do we have to do? We have to pray, and we have to take our grubby fingers off because sometimes we mess up so badly. Maybe there’s a lady who is so desperate for her husband to come to Christ and she’s leaving those magazines on the coffee table, and she’s sending messages to him on the telephone, on the cell phone, maybe even my message. The Lord says, “Lay off.” You need to pray for him. Maybe it’s a wife that's rebellious - you need to pray for her and let God take care of His sheep because they are actually His creation and He paid the ultimate price for their lives.

It’s like when I was actively cattle farming, my sons are doing it now, we would have a large herd of cows in the mountains and we would be bringing them home because they were starting to calf down, they were starting to have babies, but there would be one calf and we just could not find it. We had been out on the horses looking in the krantzes, valleys, and forests; we cannot find that calf. We have had our workers walking over the fields looking for them. We cannot find that calf. Then what do we do, we bring the whole herd back home, and we take the mother of that calf, on her own and we let her go into the forests, into the fields and the next morning we go out and there she is suckling that beautiful baby calf.

Oh friends, I’ve seen it before, a mother at a creche, a whole lot of little children all shouting and playing and her little baby falls and hurts itself and starts to cry. She recognises that voice above all the other children and she goes straight to that baby.

Jesus is the Good Shepherd. He will save your loved one.
God bless you and goodbye.