Bible Verse of The Day – 7-2-21

John 10:27 (NKJV) 27 My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.

This is a familiar verse to most of us. We’ve probably heard or read it many times in the past.

And we have probably all read it and moved on, thinking very little about the depth of it.

I did that, too, until recently, when the Holy Spirit showed me something that I had missed.

Look at those last 4 words; “and they follow me”.

God clearly showed me that most of us miss the importance of those 4 words.

You see, we often state that we believe in Jesus. We put our faith in Him. We trust Him.

But Jesus said that His sheep “follow Him”.

There is a big difference between believing in someone and following them!

Now that caught my attention.

To believe in someone conveys that we have some kind of confidence in them as a person of significance, or a leader; someone of great importance.

But to follow them indicates that we do far more than just believe in them. We trust them with everything; our life, our eternal destiny, our very soul.

It also means that we obey them! We do what they say we should do.

That is probably the biggest outward sign of following Jesus; that we obey Him in the way we live and the actions we take in our day to day lives.

We live like He lived. And we live the way He instructed us to.

Why? Not simply because it seems like the right thing to do. But because we love Him.

Remember the exchange between Peter and Jesus?

Jesus asked Peter three times if he loved Him. By the third time, Peter was frustrated. But Jesus was trying to make a point; that He wanted Peter to understand what it meant to love Him.

And then He told Peter to do something that was significant, but seemed rather odd at the time; feed My sheep.

It was then that Peter started to get it. It “clicked”, and he understood the depth of what it means to follow Jesus.

And that level of loving and following Jesus ultimately cost Peter his life, as He literally followed Jesus to his death years later.

John 21:17 (NKJV) 17 He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me?” Peter was grieved because He said to him the third time, “Do you love Me?” And he said to Him, “Lord, You know all things; You know that I love You.” Jesus said to him, “Feed My sheep.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

401-315-0902

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