Shepherd's Blend

 

Shepherd’s Blend

“Like the prodigal I'm lost in the feeling that I ain't from this world The Going Back to Eden Ain't gonna be easy But it leads me straight to you Now I'm running home Like the Prodigal”

Lyrics:  Josiah Queen

Ephesians 2:14 “For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;”

Reference: Ephesians 2

     Sheep and goats?  No.  The idea here is more along Jacob’s line.  “by whose stripes ye were healed.”  His payment from Laban was the speckled and spotted livestock.  Didn’t care what they looked like.  A sheepy was a sheepy.  Good wool.  Good meat.  1 Peter says we are drawn near 1 Peter 2:25 “For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.”  Feed My sheep, Peter.  Feed My sheep.

     Synthesis?  God in times past brought from the stock of Israel pure white lambs to say.  Their wool be undefiled in His eyes.  As far as the eye could see over His flock.  True natives.  True indigenous peoples, earthy and called.

     Now He has blended in the misfits, the outcasts. Those of us who coats are in shame.  Speckled, spotted.  A quagmire only He could figure out.  And He fixed.

     By the cross, He has reconciled the two together.  Now there is neither Jew nor Greek, rich or poor, in or out.  He has brought all together to one in Him just as He is one with the Father.

     Jesus is into oneness.  He wants togetherness. Closeness.  A prodigal son out to the limits makes no sense to Him.  He calls over the hedgerows hoping to bring in the lost to His great marriage supper.  The King must be served by many a subjects.  By sheer number, He is glorified.

 Revelation 7:14 “And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.”

     Though speckled and spotted, we are all made white in the end. Ephesians 2:12  “That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:”

     But now!  He has made two things one in Him.  We fight no longer if we find true peace in Him.  He has given us the opportunity.  Let us partake.

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