Security – Part 2
Seeing that the young lady’s difficulty was that, though she had faith in Him as the one who had died for her, and rose again, she had not faith in Him as a living all-powerful Saviour and Shepherd of the sheep in the bright glory of God above. I said, “Suppose you could see a shepherd coming across the field with a strayed lamb in his arms, tell me would the shepherd be carrying the lamb, or the lamb the shepherd?”
“Why of course, the Shepherd would be carrying the lamb,” was her reply.
“Yes,” I said, “Now tell me, which are you, the lamb or the shepherd?”
“The lamb,” she replied.
“Yes, to be sure; and do you not see the lamb does not hold the shepherd, but the ‘Good’ and ‘Great’ Shepherd, the Lord Jesus, holds in His almighty arms the little lamb, and carries it safely home to heaven? Isaiah 40:11 says, ‘He shall feed His flock like a shepherd: He shall gather the lambs with His arm, and carry them in His bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.’”
Continued…
