Pastoral

"We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture," Psalm 100:3.

Whose people? The Lord God Jehovah's people! Don't you forget whose you are. Now, sometimes folks will interpret like this: God is God, God made us to be sheep, so we're nothing more than just a bunch of old sheep. I get the value to warn against human arrogance, but here it misses whole thing big time. A pastoral society defines wealth in terms of its stock of cattle or sheep. So here's what it says: God created us, we are his, we are his people, we're his stock market. When God shows off his wealth to whatever in the world (and out of the world) there is to show it to, you're what he shows. So don't harden your heart. Don't you forget your value to whose you are!

With a brother or sister today we remind each other that God is good, his steadfast love endures forever. And, together, we say, Thank you God, we bless your name!