Sheep Without A Shepherd

Scripture: Matthew 9:35-38

Song: Far And Near

How one can read the accounts of Jesus’ life and accuse God is a marvel to me? To say that God doesn’t care or to charge Him with partiality or neglect demands that we ignore all that the inspired record says to the contrary.

Jesus felt compassion for the multitudes. If I given all my selfish tendencies and imperfections can feel sympathy for the needs of others, how much more compassion must the selfless and sinless Son of God feel for the hurts of humanity. His sympathy is not marred by the fear of risk or selfish worries about what helping will cost Him. He sees only the need and sorrows for those who possess it.

Jesus not only identifies with the sorrows of humanity, He sees clearly the real need. They are distressed and downcast. They are reaping the consequences of pasturing in the wrong fields, watering in the wrong springs, wandering down the wrong paths. They are like sheep without a shepherd. The need of the hour was for laborers to send out and bring them home.

Has the complexion of the multitudes changed? The Pharisees washed their hands of the masses. If we adopt the media’s view of the population, we might give up as well. The masses are still searching, wandering. The need is still for laborers to go and lead them to the Shepherd. Evidently the best way to bring them in is to send out messengers. If there was a better plan, surely the Lord would have thought of it. Look at the multitudes today. What do you see? What will you do?

Jason Moore