The Shepherd of My Soul 

(1Pe 2:25) 



God is good(Ps 119:68). 

His character, His mind and His plan are all good, and 

He leads to the good path(Ps 23:1-6). 



Faith is knowing the Shepherd of my soul and being satisfied by Him, and 

The life of this faith is being watched, overseen and supervised by Him, and following Him until the end(Ac 20:28). 



The sheep and the shepherd have a vital relationship for 

To the sheep the shepherd is its life itself. 

For the sheep is herbivorous and has a poor sense of direction, 

It needs to follow the voice of its shepherd and follow him 

To find pasture and protection. 



All men became lost sheep because 

Their ancestor, Adam, was deceived by the devil and 

Followed him(Ge 3:4-6, Ge 3:24; 2Pe 2:19). 



God called Moses 

Not when he was in the palace 

But when he was tending sheep for 40 years(Ex 3:1-4) so that 

He would become the shepherd of the people of God, Israel, and 

Lead them through the sea, the desert and the valleys(Is 63:11). 



On the other hand, God prophesied that 

He would punish the evil deeds of 

The false shepherds who would destroy and scatter the flock(Jer 23:1-2). 



Nevertheless, the temple was the reminder of 

God, the Shepherd of Israel, and 

How He delivered them from destruction and extinction, and 

Led them with His rod and His staff(Ps 23:1-6). 



Jesus said, "Destroy this temple and I will raise it again in three days(Jn 2:19-20), 

Because through the death and the resurrection of the temple of His body, 

Through His torn flesh, He would become 

The gate for the sheep and 

The good shepherd who leads His sheep to the path of eternal life(Jn 10:7-16). 



Though when He died, all His followers were scattered(Mt 26:32), 

Jesus said, "It is finished(Jn 19:30), declaring that: 

1. The Father alone is good for He alone can pull Him out of the darkest valley(Ps 23:4); 

2. Judged the devil, the thief(Jn 10:10; 1Jn 3:8); and 

3. With His blood redeemed souls and made them His possession(Rev 5:9). 

He rose and ascended to heaven and entered the Father's house. 

He is the great Shepherd of the sheep(He 13:20). 



The Holy Spirit came in the name Yeshua 

To call the lost sheep and 

Made little shepherds overseers to 

Tend the church which God purchased with His own blood(Ac 20:28). 



The souls who once were lost but 

Now have returned to the shepherd and the overseer of their souls(1Pe 2:25), 

Obey the voice of his little shepherd and submit to him(He 13:17-21) so that 

He would not worry but rather rejoice for 

He longs to be led, even if it is a thorny path, 

To the river of life 

When the Chief Shepherd appears(1Pe 5:4; Rev 7:17). 



O Lord, 

Let us follow until the end 

Our little shepherd who leads us 

To the path of righteousness, the path of the truth, 

Even if we are struck with bitter words. 

Lord, finally, lead us out of this darkest valley, Hades! 

Amen.