Are you a staff for the Shepherd to lean on
A yielded heart to His plans for today?
A calendar filled with appointments
On His schedule and choice for your way?
For His burden grows lighter and lighter
And His yoke is a joy to receive
When He gathers the weak and the lowly
To follow and simply believe
Through trials and troubles He leads us
His voice rings more clearly each day
Though dark paths and steep valleys lie just up ahead
He safely carries His lambs all the way!
He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young. Isaiah 40:11 KJVHe Safely Carries His Lambs by Peter Caligiuri copyright 2021 all right reserved
When I was four years old, we lived in a tiny apartment over a store and my back yard was the flat roof of the building with a wall around its edge. One morning as I was out there playing with some pots and pans, I got the notion of flinging a frying pan over the wall, but my happy smile turned to terror as I heard loud yelling below and then the sound of footsteps coming up the fire escape. Soon the angry face of a delivery truck driver appeared at the top of the stairs holding the frying pan in his hand! My memory fails me as to what happened beyond the well-deserved spanking my mother dished out that day. As she finished, I shouted, “I don’t like you! I want to go live with Gammy and Cap-Cap!” (My grandparents) Mom quietly smiled as she dried my tears, then without argument, fetched my suitcase, put it up on the bed and started to help me pack. Soon I was down on the street, holding my luggage in one hand, staring determinedly ahead as mom pointed, “Okay you walk up this road about 500 miles and you’ll come to their house.” I made it about half a block when the sound of cars swooshing past and the long late afternoon shadows struck fear in my heart and in tears, I ran back to my mom and threw my arms around her. How hard it was to admit that she had been right all along and that I loved her! Just like me, Peter hated to admit how much he needed Jesus. He was ashamed how dirty his feet were, and shocked to see Jesus kneeling to wash them. But Jesus not only washed Peter’s feet, He wants to wash yours and mine as well. If we simply confess our need for Him, what a joy is ours when He washes us, then picks us up and carries us all the way home!
So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, 7 for we walk by faith, not by sight. 2 Corinthians 5:6-7 ESV
It’s not what others say or think
Of what we’re going through
Or how they feel about the way
Of all God asks of you
But only what His word has said
And what He calls us to
How on His cross He showed us all
That love asks us to do
Then the lame will walk and the deaf will hear
And the blind begin to see
By the power of the love of Christ
For friend and enemy
That washes feet and feeds the poor
And turns the other cheek
And trusts to walk in faith today
Till with Him we will be
Till With Him We Will Be - by Peter Caligiuri copyright
2021 all rights reserved.
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