Sheep! Stop!
Stop being offended by every gnat, and mosquito, and “baa” from every other sheep in your path. Run to the Good Shepherd. He has anointing Oil to allow you to have peace, wisdom, direction, and rest.
We are as sheep just as the Chief Shepherd has proclaimed. Oh, the pests that swarm around our heads and irritate us sheep greatly. But the Good Shepherd, He is calling, “Today.” “Today.”
And the sheep that hear His voice come for His anointing oil to be poured out on our heads.
Oh, the peace.
He speaks in gentleness. He is faithful. He is love and help. He is life. His way is true.
He brings relief.
The anointing oil, His Holy Spirit, changes us. This is the Good Shepherd’s remedy.
Now we can see and focus on Him and be filled with thankfulness.
“We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
each of us has turned to our own way;
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all,” Isaiah 53:6.
Oh, that we sheep who hear the Shepherd’s voice, never tire to tell others of His remedy and love. He sends us out, that we might bring others to Him.
That the sheep will see Him as He is and not from their own thoughts anymore:
He was oppressed and afflicted,
yet he did not open his mouth;
he was led like a lamb to the slaughter,
and as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.
By oppression and judgment he was taken away.
Yet who of his generation protested?
For he was cut off from the land of the living;
for the transgression of my people he was punished.
He was assigned a grave with the wicked,
and with the rich in his death,
though he had done no violence,
nor was any deceit in his mouth,” Isaiah 53:7-9.
We suddenly see “Who” is the “He.” And we realize He has faced every evil thing.
The anointing Oil changes us. The focus, now shifts from other sheep, to Him.
We realize, He does love us.
His anointing brings wisdom. And we continually discover, growing knowledge, understanding, patience and self-control.
He becomes Chief Shepherd by our own, personal invitation.
He is all that we need.
We are no longer irritated by the pests and the rest, as, together we follow and are led to green pastures. He brings restoration by refreshing Living waters.
He has a plan.
He gives us understanding to know Him more and more. His anointing heals the “annoying,” and our hearts see ever clearly:
Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer,
and though the Lord makes his life an offering for sin,
he will see his offspring and prolong his days,
and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand.
After he has suffered,
he will see the light of life and be satisfied;
by his knowledge[f] my righteous servant will justify many,
and he will bear their iniquities.
Therefore I will give him a portion among the great,
and he will divide the spoils with the strong,
because he poured out his life unto death,
and was numbered with the transgressors.
For he bore the sin of many,
and made intercession for the transgressors, Isaiah 53:10-12.
And together, we follow Him closely, listening to His voice. We don’t hardly notice the mistakes and messes and irritating stresses. We’re changed. We’re better. As we simply allow the Shepherd to fill us and anoint us again and again.
And step by step, He’ll lead us,
until He calls us home to His house of Love. And we go on forever, rejoicing. Rejoicing in glorious praise, fully unified. All because Christ died.
And rose.
And sealed and anointed us with His Spirit of Hope.
In Jesus name, Amen!