I am at a loss for words and expression because of the awesomeness of our God. I open my mouth to give praise but all I can do is stutter in amazement.
I think God is laughing at me.
In Ezekiel 34:11-16, I so adored the way God promised how He would personally search for His lost sheep (people). While reading Ezekiel, y0u might assume that He is only talking about Israel but if you really read these verses, you’ll see how relevant they are to us today!
11 I myself will search for my sheep and look after them.
12 I will rescue them from all the places where they were scattered…
13 I will pasture them…
15 I myself will tend my sheep…
16 I will search for the lost and bring back the strays. I will bind up the injured and strengthen the weak.
This is exactly what God does today! He is forever seeking us out, personally, and when he does find us (or rather, when we allow Him to find us), He stays so true to His promise of providing for us, tending to us, healing us and strengthening us!
God wants to be so personal with us, but many times we don’t comprehend.
In v23 and 24, God also says that He will place over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he will tend them; he will tend them and be their shepherd.
The shepherd was written as God’s “servant David”. Literally, that sounds preposterous because David’s not around anymore, yet God said it. Then I realized that the term "my servant David” could very well mean someone from David’s line. Many, many, many years later, Jesus comes from David’s line and totally, perfectly fulfills this.
Can this, I ask, possibly be simply the work of scholars and authors? I find it impossible because there is no way that even the best minds could have “created” a story 66 books long and been able to sync them so perfectly with one another.
This is the Word of God.
I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David will be prince among them. I the LORD have spoken.
