Enjoying the Company of the Shepherd I have been young and now I am older, but I have never seen shepherds guarding, watching and staying on pasture lands day after day without their sheep. When you find a shepherd all by himself in such places, he is usually on a specific mission.  Conversely, it is equally rare to see sheep unattended for days in those pasture lands.  Sheep enjoy the company of their shepherd. Remember, they are dependent animals. They need a shepherd if they must thrive and stay safe. A shepherd without sheep and sheep without a shepherd are...

Listening to the Shepherd Sheep know and understand the voice of their shepherd. They can isolate it amidst many voices. They understand and follow the cues of the shepherd, too. They can tell when he wants them to lie down and rest beside quiet waters, get up, standstill, or start their journey to the grazing fields. Other times, they just follow the shepherd from one place to another. When a sheep gets hurt, it stays closer to the shepherd. This kind of communication develops over time.  God desires such a relationship with His children. To understand God, to stay and...

The Shepherd Will Make Your Bones Fat The Shepherd will take care of you in moments of drought.  Droughts and hot weather pose challenges to shepherds and sheep. Sheep go through heat stress. Their fur retains heat and unless their conditions are altered, their body temperature continues to increase, and the sheep eventually collapse and die. A shepherd must be vigilant to look for non-traditional ways of feeding and watering the sheep. With grazing pastures dried up, he must now feed his sheep on more exotic foods like sorghum, oats, barley and or sheep nuts. The cost of maintaining sheep...