FEED MY SHEEP

Have you ever asked your love interest; “Do you love me.”  Jesus asked Peter the same question three times and after Peter answered for the third time, Jesus told him, if you love me, “Feed my sheep.”  We feed sheep daily-sometimes knowingly and sometimes anonymously.  When the Spirit of God touches your heart, you are constrained to love your neighbor as yourself.  You can give without loving but you cannot love without giving.  Giving is one of the greatest testament of expressing love.

There was a story going around the internet that speaks about feeding sheeps:

A few years ago a group of salesmen went to a regional sales convention in Chicago. They had assured their wives that they would be home in plenty of time for Friday night’s dinner.  In their rush to catch the plane home, with tickets and briefcases, one of these salesmen inadvertently kicked over a table which held a display of apples.

Apples flew everywhere.  Without stopping or looking back, they almost all managed to  each the plane in time for their nearly missed boarding.

ALL BUT ONE!  He paused, took a deep breath, got in touch with his feelings, and experienced a twinge of compassion for the girl whose apple stand had been overturned.

He told his buddies to go on without him, waved  good-bye, told one of them to call his wife when they arrived at their home destination and explain his taking a later flight. Then he returned to the terminal where the apples were all over the terminal floor. He was glad he did.The 16-year-old girl was totally blind!  She was softly crying, tears running down her cheeks in frustration, and at the same time helplessly groping for her spilled produce as the crowd swirled about her, no one stopping and no one to care for her plight..The salesman knelt on the floor with her, gathered up the apples, put them back on the table and  helped organize her display.  As he did this, he noticed that many of them had become battered and bruised; these he set aside in another basket. When he had finished, he pulled out his wallet and said to the girl,

“Here, please take this $40 for the damage we did.”

“Are you okay?”  She nodded through her tears.  He continued on with, “I hope we didn’t spoil your day too badly.”

As the salesman started to walk away, the bewildered blind girl called out to him, “Mister…..”  He paused and turned to look back into those blind eyes. She continued, “Are you Jesus?”

He stopped in mid-stride, and he wondered.  Then slowly he made his way to catch the later flight with that question burning and bouncing about in his soul:”Are you Jesus?””Do people mistake you for Jesus?

That’s our destiny, is it not?  To be so much like Jesus that people cannot tell the difference as we live and interact with a world that is blind to His love, life and grace.

If we claim to know Him, we should live, walk and act as He would. Knowing Him is more than simply quoting Scripture and going to church. It’s actually living the Word as life unfolds day to day. You are the apple of His eye even though we, too, have been bruised by a fall.  He stopped what  He was doing and picked you and me up on a hill called Calvary and paid in full for our damaged fruit.  (Read December 31 devotional entitled:  “Jesus Christ”)

Would you join me in Feeding God’s Sheep?  Please sign your name and email address below and tell me about the project(s) you’d like to accomplish in your daily walk with God.  It doesn’t have to be big project, it could be a small act of kindness or sponsoring someone to attend school; whatever the Spirit moves you to do, do it with all our might.  There is a great need out there.  You don’t have to go to a mission field to help your neighbor.  I have projects I’m pursuing and would be happy to share them with you too.  The need to feed His sheep is great, won’t you help?
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