Friday June 23, 2017
Jesus is the Shepherd who tends the sheep, rescuing them, gathering them together, leading them home, pasturing them, protecting them, and giving them rest/peace. He seeks out the lost, forgiving, bringing back the stray, binding the injured, but destroying the sleek and the strong-shepherding all with justice. This is the love of the heart of God in Jesus.
This love has been shared with us in the life/death/resurrection of Jesus. God is not/has not ever been wrathful even when we have been inhuman. All we have known is God's reconciliation and mercy in Jesus the Lord. We have each been the one lost and straying that has been brought back to the other sheep-so that we could all be one again in God. The Shepherd wants to keep us all together. The heart of Jesus seeks to bring us all into the fullness of God, the Trinity, so that we might dwell as one.
