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Week 1: Listening to the Good Shepherd
Week 1, Day 1
Knowing the Voice of the Good Shepherd
Sheep are dumb. But there is one thing that makes them smarter than many of us: They know the voice of the Good Shepherd.
Read John 10:1-18 and reflect on the questions that follow as we listen to the Good Shepherd’s voice today. (The NLT version is included below, but feel free to read it in multiple versions to hear the Good Shepherd’s voice in different and new ways.)
“I tell you the truth, anyone who sneaks over the wall of a sheepfold, rather than going through the gate, must surely be a thief and a robber! 2 But the one who enters through the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep recognize his voice and come to him. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. 4 After he has gath-ered his own flock, he walks ahead of them, and they follow him because they know his voice. 5 They won’t follow a stranger; they will run from him because they don’t know his voice.”
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How do we fulfill the commands in Matthew 22:34-39 to love God?And to love others? Listen to God. Listen to others.
Our Heavenly Father has a message that we have each been called to hear, but are you listening? Amid the noisy world we live in, listening has become a lost art. We know that “anyone with ears to hear should listen and understand” (NLT). But how should we listen? What is God saying?
We may not hear from a burning bush like Moses, but we can hear His voice through His Word, through nature, through Christian brothers and sisters, even through silence... But again, the question we must ask ourselves is, “Are we listening?”