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The Lord, in calling His
people His sheep, chose a very significant emblem of the character
He would have manifested in them. The most noticeable
characteristics of the sheep are meekness, docility and obedience to
the shepherd to whose care they fully entrust themselves.... The
true sheep will carefully listen for the faintest accents of the
voice of the Shepherd—i.e., he will treasure up His words in his
heart, he will study His providences; and he will cultivate that
communion and personal fellowship with the Lord which are his
privilege. Those who thus abide in Him can never go astray. “They
can never, never lose their
way”. |