It’s time! Our precious, tiny, clean, sweet little lambs born on our farm in February are leaving this week. It’s time. The boys are ready to go. I know they are ready because they are getting stinky. The stink tells me they are able to start their own family…..somewhere else. They are consuming way too much of our pasture that is designed for a smaller flock. They are ready to lead their own flock.
Hmmmm….I think this is what God does with us!
We start out as baby believers, needing the care and guidance of a mentor, someone who can disciple us in Bible study and prayer, guiding us through life, shaping and molding us in relational and spiritual maturity. And then….we outgrow that setting. (Hopefully we don’t stay there long enough to get stinky!)
We need to step out and begin a new family, a new mentoring relationship where WE are the parent. We guide a new little lamb in following Jesus.
And then THEY outgrow us and create a new pasture for their friends and family!
Unlike our farm animals, people always have the same Good Shepherd who loves and cares for them. And He is very VERY good!
“I am the Good Shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know Me”. John 10:14
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