Jesus Is Our Good Shepherd

 Jesus Is Our Good Shepherd and knows us by name, just as we know Jesus as our Savior God and gentle Shepherd. Yet He elevates our relationship with Himself to heights beyond our imagination. He compares our relationship to Himself with His Own intimate and cherished relationship with the Father.
 How staggering to know that Christ KNOWS you and me, just as the Father KNOWS Christ. What a God! What a Savior! What a Shepherd! In love, He willingly laid down His precious life for you and for me. What a gracious Savior and what a gentle Man.
  Christ was the sin sacrifice Who would lay down His life to satisfy the wrath of God for the sins of the whole world so that all who believed on His name would be saved. But the life of our Good Shepherd was also willingly laid down because of His deep love for His sheep, His Church, His Body.
 Praise God that our Good Shepherd knows us and loves us. Praise God that the eternal Son became the perfect Man to lay down His life for the sheep, and to take it up again so that we too might receive newness of life in Him, forever.
“I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me

Our United Prayer:
Heavenly Father, thank You that Jesus is our Good Shepherd Who knows those that are the sheep of His pasture. May we come to know Him more and more, as we keep Him firmly fixed in our gaze. In His name we Pray, AMEN.