Go to the Right Person

'...WE ARE HIS PEOPLE, THE SHEEP HE TENDS.' PSALM 100:3

Like sheep, most of our wounds come from living in the pasture. Thorns
prick. Rocks cut. Heads butt. Mosquitoes bite. So our Shepherd regularly
inspects His sheep searching for wounds. That's because He doesn't want
today's wound to become tomorrow's infection. Hence, David writes,
'...we are His people, the sheep He tends.' Others may guide us to God,
but no one does the work of God, for only God can heal. He 'heals the
brokenhearted...' (Psalm 147:3 NIV). So, your first step is to go to the
right person; go to God. Your second step is to assume the right
posture; bow before God. To be anointed with the oil that heals and
protects, the sheep must stand still, lower its head and let the shepherd

do his work.

Peter writes, 'Be humble under God's powerful hand so He will lift you up

when the right time comes' (1 Peter 5:6 NCV). When we come to God we

make requests, not demands. We state what we want, but we pray for

what's right. Like Paul, if God gives us the prison in Rome instead of the

mission in Spain, we accept it because we know God will always give what

is right to His people (See Luke 18:7 NCV). Now, the sheep don't understand

how the oil repels mosquitoes or heals wounds. In fact, all the sheep know is

that something happens in the presence of their shepherd, that doesn't happen

anywhere else. And that's all we need to know as well. Hence David writes,

'Lord, I give myself to You; my God, I trust You...' (Psalm 25:1-2 NCV).

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