These are beautiful places --- green pastures, beside the still waters. But what about when our lives are not in such pretty sites, when the grass isn't so green and the waters seem anything but still. What then?
Then we hold on to these verses...we hold on to the fact that the Lord IS our Shepherd. That He will bring us again to green pastures and still waters. That He IS faithful and that He IS good. Sheep sometimes have to go through rocky places to get to the place of rest...and as they go through those mountain passes, through the crags and tors, their Shepherd is guiding them, always protecting them and ever loving them.
When we're not in green pastures, we look forward to them, knowing they will come again...and knowing that we have the greenest pastures, the stillest waters waiting for us in a place that He is preparing for us now, a place that is promised to be more than our little sheep-brains can begin to imagine!
However, as it is written: "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him"-- 1 Corinthians 2:9
Then we hold on to these verses...we hold on to the fact that the Lord IS our Shepherd. That He will bring us again to green pastures and still waters. That He IS faithful and that He IS good. Sheep sometimes have to go through rocky places to get to the place of rest...and as they go through those mountain passes, through the crags and tors, their Shepherd is guiding them, always protecting them and ever loving them.
When we're not in green pastures, we look forward to them, knowing they will come again...and knowing that we have the greenest pastures, the stillest waters waiting for us in a place that He is preparing for us now, a place that is promised to be more than our little sheep-brains can begin to imagine!
However, as it is written: "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him"-- 1 Corinthians 2:9
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