Sheep

So I was sitting in Pastor Ron's class the other day and we were talking about sheep. God tells us that we are his sheep and he is our Sheppard.

I was then thinking, what if we really grasp this. What if we truly understood that we are sheep.

I wrote down a couple of thoughts...sheep are dumb, sheep belong to a flock, sheep need guidance, sheep need protection, sheep are lost without a Sheppard...hmm, what if we grasp that we really do not have any idea, that we are lost without God, that we are dumb and need guidance. The world can tell us that we know everything, that we have it all together, that we have it all figured out yet God still tells us we are sheep. I think some of the key to believing this is living life. Our best intentions can never bring us true success, the kind that lasts and fills up the depth of your soul. We are sheep...in a way it kind of sucks, we're stupid but in a way it is amazing, it frees us to surrender to the loving hand of our Sheppard. It frees us of having to figure it all out, honestly it kind of frees of the burden that it all depends on us...it reduces life to this...yes I will follow or no I will not...yes I will trust or no I will not...I'm a sheep, I'm dumb and go my own way some times but in my heart I say yes I will follow