The Father wants you to live in abundant life. You should know that He also wants you to live in comfort. His idea of comfort might be a little different than yours!
“I assure you: Anyone who doesn’t enter the sheep pen by the door but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.2 The one who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.3 The doorkeeper opens it for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.4 When he has brought all his own outside, he goes ahead of them. The sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.5 They will never follow a stranger; instead they will run away from him, because they don’t recognize the voice of strangers.”
6 Jesus gave them this illustration, but they did not understand what He was telling them.
7 So Jesus said again, “I assure you: I am the door of the sheep.8 All who came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them.9 I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved and will come in and go out and find pasture.10 A thief comes only to steal and to kill and to destroy. I have come so that they may have life and have it in abundance.
John 10:1-10 HCSB
1 The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I lack. 2 He lets me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters. 3 He renews my life; He leads me along the right paths for His name’s sake. 4 Even when I go through the darkest valley, I fear no danger, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff—they comfort me.
5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. 6 Only goodness and faithful love will pursue me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord as long as I live.
Psalm 23:1-6
As a mother comforts her son, so I will comfort you, and you will be comforted in Jerusalem.
Isaiah 66:13 HCSB
Don’t withhold discipline from a youth; if you beat him with a rod, he will not die. Strike him with a rod, and you will rescue his life from Sheol.
Proverbs 23:13-14 HCSB
Hebrews 12:3-13 – Ask the Lord…
What Do I Need to Correct?
What Should I Be Learning?
The Lord of Hosts says this: “Old men and women will again sit along the streets of Jerusalem, each with a staff in hand because of advanced age.
Zechariah 8:4 HCSB
18 For you have not come to what could be touched, to a blazing fire, to darkness, gloom, and storm, 19 to the blast of a trumpet, and the sound of words. (Those who heard it begged that not another word be spoken to them, 20 for they could not bear what was commanded: And if even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned!21 The appearance was so terrifying that Moses said, I am terrified and trembling.) 22 Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God (the heavenly Jerusalem), to myriads of angels in festive gathering, 23 to the assembly of the firstborn whose names have been written in heaven, to God who is the Judge of all, to the spirits of righteous people made perfect, 24 to Jesus (mediator of a new covenant), and to the sprinkled blood, which says better things than the blood of Abel.
