Sheep

²⁷ My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. ²⁸ And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. - John 10:27-28

     A very reassuring and comforting passage from church today. The promise of eternal life and the promise that there is nothing we can do to lose this gift. The very idea that we could lose our salvation is to say that Jesus is not powerful enough to keep us in His hand. A thought that is both blasphemous and absurd. What is even more amazing from this passage is the order of events in the first verse. Jesus tells us that as the sheep we hear His voice. However, when we hear His voice, He knows us. This is backwards to our human minds. Even in the very act of salvation it is always God doing the work. Epeshians 2:8-9 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. There is nothing we do to deserve salvation or to find it. How great is the love of our Father and Shepherd to search us out and call us even in the blackest of sin! Just like real sheep, once the Shepherd has found us our natural sheeply duty is simply to follow Him.