Sufficiency – Anne Adams
“I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.” John 10:11 KJV.
“It’s that newspaper guy again,” the pastor’s secretary told the pastor before he picked up the phone. The editor who called sounded bored on the other end. “We got your column, but there isn’t a title.”
The pastor paused to think to himself — ‘No title? Well, perhaps I was so busy with my sermon I didn’t check when I submitted.’
He quickly found the column among his papers and turned back to the phone. “The column title is ‘The Lord is My Shepherd’”
He was about to end the call when the editor’s still bored voice caught his ear. “Okay, we have ‘The Lord Is my Shepherd’. Is that it?”
For a split second the pastor’s frustration found a voice. ”Yes – ‘The Lord is My Shepherd.’ That’s enough!” he barked into the receiver and hung up.
He immediately regretted his outburst, but decided to leave it in the past. However, it didn’t stay there, as the column was soon published under the title “The Lord Is My Shepherd – That’s Enough!” (Amusingly awkward, yet entirely correct).
Christ called himself the ‘Good Shepherd’, comparing him to the familiar image of sheepherders. After all, his audience was well acquainted with shepherds and how they guided and provided for their flock’s needs. And just as a perfect human shepherd provides the sheep with everything needed, so God does the same for us — even the provision of his own life to assure our salvation.
So with the Lord as our perfect Shepherd, what else do we need? Nothing! And that’s definitely enough!
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