A Prayer to Be Gently Led
By Jessica Van Roekel
“He’ll have a tendency his flock like a shepherd; he’ll collect the lambs in his arms; he’ll carry them in his bosom, and gently lead these which can be with younger.” – Isaiah 40:11, ESV
“The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not need,” writes the Psalmist and I recite it to remind myself of God’s nice care of me. It’s a comforting reminder when the burden of obligations lies heavy on my shoulders. There’s a lot we’re referred to as to look after and far we don’t know. We will think about we do, and we are able to placed on a educated façade, but when we fail to depend on our Shepherd to guide us, we lose the best way. Do you know sheep must be directed to good pasture and have to be moved to new pasture after they’ve exhausted the vitamins within the present area? They’ll’t discover one of the best pasture with out path, and they’d overstay if their shepherd didn’t intervene. God strikes us to new pastures when wanted, however in our stubbornness, we typically resist.
As we speak’s verse calls us to behold the loving shepherd. A shepherd carries a rod and workers, a software to defend, and a software to rescue. The lambs are the weakest and youngest who want particular care. They don’t seem to be slung over the shoulder however carried near the shepherd’s chest. Charles Spurgeon writes, “The shoulders are for energy, the again for drive, however the bosom is the seat of affection.” God, our shepherd, loves us, gathers us to him, and gently leads us. The Outdated Testomony carries the shepherd metaphor into the New Testomony. Abel was the sacrificed shepherd, Jacob, the working shepherd, Joseph the persecuted and exalted shepherd, Moses, the deliverer shepherd, and David, the Shepherd King. These shepherds level us to Jesus.
John 10:11 states, “I’m the great shepherd. The nice shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.” Together with, “Now could the God of peace who introduced once more from the lifeless our Lord Jesus, the good shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the everlasting covenant,” from Hebrews 13:20 and 1 Peter 5:4, “And when the chief Shepherd seems, you’ll obtain the unfading crown of glory.” Jesus is the Good Shepherd, the Nice Shepherd, and the Chief Shepherd.
Whereas Isaiah refers to God’s limitless knowledge, greatness, and majesty in chapter 40, he pauses to remind us of God’s need and skill to look after us in a private approach. God, our Shepherd, rescues, protects, and retains us near him. Now we have no have to worry besides after we go our personal approach, which leads us out of the Good Shepherd’s steering and safety. Even then, he opens his arms to the exiled, the misplaced, and the impartial to assemble them shut. God, whose arms assist the weak, is there to information and gently lead us. The Hebrew time period for this phrase means to guard, maintain, or information to a watering place. Life might be scattered with potholes, detours, deserts, and breakdowns. However after we enable God to hold us near his coronary heart, he brings us to a spot of refreshment and guides us from pasture to pasture.
Let’s pray:
Heavenly Father,
We’d like you greater than ever. We face challenges on daily basis. Typically, we lose our approach as a result of we don’t need to comply with you thru the desert to get to the following refreshing place you’ve for us. Different occasions, we get lost as a result of we expect we all know finest. Forgive us for selecting our independence over-dependence on you. Rescue us. Maintain us. Lead us to refreshment. Collect us to you, we who go our personal approach, and shepherd us. Thanks for main us gently. Thanks for carrying us after we’re too weak to go on. We’d like your tenderness within the hardships of life. Seek for us after we get misplaced, and allow us to be discovered by you. You might be so nice, and nothing compares to you. In you, we discover our approach, and so we place our care in your palms. We belief you to guard us along with your rod and information us along with your workers. Gently lead us to the place you need us to go.
In Jesus’ identify, amen.
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