The Good Shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. John 10:11
OH 10:11{Oh, wonderful gift! not promised, but given; not to friends, but to enemies. Given without condition, without reserve, without return. Himself unknown and unloved, His gift unsought and unasked, He gave His life for thee; a more than royal bounty—the greatest gift that Deity could devise. Oh, grandeur of love! "I lay down My life for the sheep!" And we for whom He gave it have held back, and hesitated to give our lives, not even for Him (He has not asked us to do that), but to Him! But that is past, and He has tenderly pardoned the unloving, ungrateful reserve, and has graciously accepted the poor little fleeting breath and speck of dust which was all we had to offer. And now His precious death and His glorious life are all "for thee.”
Look to Him, the Lord of Glory, tasting death to win thy life;
Gazing on that wondrous story, canst thou falter in the strife?
Is it not new life to know that the Lord hath loved thee so?