Social Distancing He Leads Me Beside Quiet Waters

Social Distancing

He Leads Me Beside Quiet Waters

This time of isolating from one another

Has been a great time to refocus on the Chief Shepherd Jesus Christ

A time to get reacquainted with His voice

To hear His command to lie down and rest when the world is in turmoil

A time to be lead along the dangerous rivers and the polluted waters to still waters

Don’t stop wherever you see water

God knows your needs and will lead you to still waters, healthy waters

The key is knowing the Good Shepherd

Trusting Him for your wants and needs

Submitted to His command to rest and allowing Him to lead to the Waters of Life

  Allow this time of separating to be a time of drawing close to the Good Shepherd

And you will not be in want.

He Leads Me Beside Quiet Waters

Psalms 23 verse 2 says…

He makes me lie down in green pastures

This sounds like a great place to stay

but sheep need to move for many reasons.

So as the Lord makes us

lie down, He also leads us…

He leads me beside quiet waters

Clean, fresh water is a daily

necessity for sheep and lambs.

Sheep will consume anywhere from ½

to 5 gallons of water per day,

depending upon their physiological state,

the content of water in their feed,

and environmental conditions.

Requirements increase greatly

during late gestation and lactation.

Water is important,

but not just any water.

If left alone, sheep will drink whatever water

they stumble upon, even if it is stagnant,

filthy and unfit to drink.

Mark 6:34 says that Jesus had

compassion on the people because…

 “They were like sheep without a shepherd.”

There is a lot of water that is not safe to drink.

There are rivers and deep waters not safe to cross.

The Social Distancing has separated the sheep.

It has separated us from other

believers and from our local shepherds.

Psalms 23 reminds us…

The Lord is our Shepherd,

I shall not be in want

Because of God’s Spirit living in the

believer, we can rest assured that even in

the pandemic, the Lord has never left us.

 Recognizing our need to lie down

and our need to be lead is important.

Sheep have a strong instinct to

follow the sheep in front of them.

When one sheep decides to go somewhere,

the rest of the flock usually follows,

even if it is not a good "decision".

Sheep have a strong flocking instinct.

The flock is very important.

 But a dominate sheep, especially

rams, can lead the flock into danger.

Turkish shepherds watched in horror

as hundreds of their sheep followed

each other over a cliff in 2005.

Over 400 sheep died following one after another.

This time of isolating from one another

has been a great time to refocus

on the Chief Shepherd Jesus Christ.

A time to get reacquainted with His voice.

To hear His command to lie down and

rest when the world is in turmoil.

A time to be lead along the dangerous rivers

and the polluted waters to still waters.

Don’t stop wherever you see water.

God knows your needs and will lead

you to still waters, healthy waters.

The key is knowing the Good Shepherd.

Trusting Him for your wants and needs.

Submitted to His command to rest and

allowing Him to lead to the Waters of Life.

  Allow this time of separating to be a time

of drawing close to the Good Shepherd

and you will not be in want.

Scripture Reading

Psalms 23:1-24:1 NIV

The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not be in want.

2 He makes me lie down in green pastures,

he leads me beside quiet waters,

3 he restores my soul.

He guides me in paths of righteousness

for his name's sake.

4 Even though I walk

through the valley of the shadow of death,

I will fear no evil,

for you are with me;

your rod and your staff,

they comfort me.

5 You prepare a table before me

in the presence of my enemies.

You anoint my head with oil;

my cup overflows.

6 Surely goodness and love will follow me

all the days of my life,

and I will dwell in the house of the LORD

forever.