DURING a very heavy snowstorm, an aged shepherd, anxious for the safety of his flock, exposed to the storm on the mountainside, went out late on a wintry afternoon to bring the sheep under shelter. As he did not return that night, the farmer set off next day to search for him. By tracing his footsteps in the snow, he found the aged man, frozen to death, with a lamb wrapped in his coat. To a neighbor who called later on, he pointed out the rescued lamb frisking in the field, and said, “That lamb owes its life to the good shepherd; he gave his life to save it, although it knows nothing about it, and can never own its gratitude.”
But you and I can, dear reader. And the way in which God, who gave His Son to become our Redeemer and Saviour, desires sinners to own their gratitude to Him who gave His life a ransom for them, is to receive and to confess Him as their personal Saviour and Lord.
“I am the Good Shepherd: the Good Shepherd giveth His life for the sheep.” John 10:11.
“My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me: and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of My hand. My Father, which gave them Me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of My Father’s hand.” John 10:28, 29.
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