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Walk with the Lamb

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Pick the thing you would want to learn to do the most. The thing that makes your heart soar, that thing that when you do it you lose all track of time. Now imagine the person you admire the most in the world and aspire to be like offers to teach you everything they know. Would you turn them down? Would you instead buy the book he or she wrote and try to work out all the diagrams, directions, and terminology all on your own?

But so often, this is what we do to God. He came in the flesh. He died on the cross. He rose from the dead, and He sent His Spirit to come and dwell inside of us. But what do we do? Instead we read histories, anthropology, theology, and commentaries. We listen to teachers and biblical scholars to help us understand how to do everything better, to figure out the formula to be right with God. We keep diets, and feast days, and fast days. We try so hard to not get angry, to not sin, and to not hate others. And so often we fail. These are all works of the flesh.

We have direct access to the King of Kings, His Spirit is coursing through our bodies giving us Life, but we ignore Him, because we are still caught in shame and guilt; we are still believing the lie that we can do something to earn God’s love.

He’s done it all. He has gone before us. He has finished the work necessary for our salvation. He has opened the doors to Paradise. He is calling us into Freedom. All we have to do is say, “YES!”

Then I looked, and behold, on Mount Zion stood the Lamb, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads. And I heard a voice from heaven like the roar of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder. The voice I heard was like the sound of harpists playing on their harps, and they were singing a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and before the elders. No one could learn that song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth. It is these who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins. It is these who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These have been redeemed from mankind as firstfruits for God and the Lamb, and in their mouth no lie was found, for they are blameless.

Rev. 14:1-5

The Good Shepherd

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I want you to consider something. God came and spoke to the people of Israel from the mountain, and they were terrified of Him. They basically told God to stop talking to them. So what did He have to do? He had to speak to them through Moses. He had to give them the Law. The Law pointed to Him, but it wasn’t the plan to have a list of instructions for them (or us) to follow. The plan was that they have a relationship with Him, and that He would lead us as a Shepherd leads His flock.

He came in the flesh in the person of Jesus Christ and finally showed us Who He is and how much we mean to Him. He said, “I am the Good Shepherd. My sheep know my voice and they follow Me. The Good Shepherd lays down His life for His sheep. No one takes my life from Me, but I lay it down willingly. And if I have the authority to lay it down, I have the authority to take it up again.” (John 10:11-18)

Do you see? It is not about what we do, it is about what He has done. He died and is alive, and we have been given life through Him and with Him, that we might be led by his Spirit to verdant pastures and still waters. (Sounds like Paradise, doesn’t it?) If we have the Good Shepherd to lead us, why would we fence ourselves in with a set of laws and instructions that was only meant to reveal Him to us when He came?

The Law given through Moses was a sheepfold. (Gal 3:24)

There is no need for a sheepfold when the Good Shepherd is in our midst. (Romans 10:4)

The sheepfold helped to keep us relatively safe, but we were still susceptible to thieves and wolves. We needed a Shepherd to come and watch over us, and to save us and lead us to a new life outside the sheepfold into the wide expanse of FREEDOM!” (Romans 8:2-3, 2 Cor. 3:17)

I pray you can receive this in the Spirit of Whom it has been given. I want to share the beauty that God is sharing with me. I have been in religious circles all my life. I have been in the Protestant world, the Jewish/Messianic world, and even dipped my toes in Catholicism and Eastern Orthodox streams. Some of the doctrines and traditions are so beautiful within these circles. Yet, they are not HIM! And He is MORE BEAUTIFUL, MORE LOVELY than all of them combined!

By the Grace of God, He kept taking everything away from me that I was using as a replacement for His presence and His voice, and only when I felt boxed in, did I finally surrender and say, “Okay, then, what is it I am supposed to be doing?”

“There is nothing that you can do that I haven’t already done. Follow Me. Be with Me. Sit here at my feet and learn from Me; I am humble of heart; Take my yoke, for My yoke is easy and My burden is light, and you will find rest for your soul.” See how great is the Father’s love is?

And so I pray, “I will not move unless You move. I will follow You.”