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Divine Shepherd
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your tears; I also have wept. The griefs that lie too deep to be
breathed into any human ear, I know. You are not forsaken. Though
your pain touch no responsive cord in any heart on earth, look to Me
and live. See
Isaiah 54:10
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Because we are the gift of His Father and the reward of His
work, Jesus loves us as His children. He loves you. Heaven itself
can bestow nothing greater, nothing better. Therefore trust.
Jesus thought about the souls all over the earth who were misled
by false shepherds, scattered among wolves, and He said, “I have
other sheep that are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they
will heed my voice. So there shall be one flock, one shepherd.” RSV.
“Therefore doth My Father love Me, because I lay down My life,
that I might take it again... . I have power to lay it down, and I have
power to take it again.” As a member of the human family Jesus was
mortal; as God He was the fountain of life for the world. He could
have withstood the advances of death, but voluntarily He laid down
His life that He might bring life and immortality to light. “He was
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wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities:
the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes
we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned
every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity
of us all.”
Isaiah 53:5, 6
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