~ Q. Who Am I? The Answers Might Surprise You! ~
This is the
start of a weekly post (every Monday) regarding the Christian’s true
identity. Today’s post is from an
unknown source!
Years ago, when our daughters were very young, we’d
drop them off at our church’s children's chapel on Sundays before the eleven o’clock
service.
One Sunday, just as I was about to open the door to
the small chapel, the minister came rushing up in full vestments. He said he had an emergency and asked if I’d
speak to the children at their story time. He said the subject was the Twenty-third
Psalm.
But just as I was about to get up from the back row
and talk about the good shepherd, the minister burst into the room and signaled
to me that he would be able to do the story time after all.
He told the children about sheep, that they weren’t
smart and needed lots of guidance, and that a shepherd’s job was to stay close
to the sheep, protect them from wild animals and keep them from wandering off
and doing dumb things that would get them hurt or killed.
He pointed to the little children in the room and
said that they were the sheep and needed lots of guidance.
Then the minister put his hands out to the side,
palms up in a dramatic gesture, and with raised eyebrows said to the children,
“If you are the sheep then who is the shepherd?” He was pretty obviously
indicating himself.
A silence of a few seconds followed. Then a young visitor said, “Jesus, Jesus is
the shepherd.”
The young minister, obviously caught by surprise,
said to the boy, “Well, then, who am I?”
The little boy frowned thoughtfully and then said
with a shrug, “I guess you must be a sheep dog.”
~ Robert Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT LIFE NOW
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