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Monday of the Third Week of Easter
Today’s Reading: Ezekiel 34:11-16
Daily Lectionary: Exodus 33:1-23; Luke 7:1-17
As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his sheep that have been scattered, so will I seek out my sheep, and I will rescue them from all places where they have been scattered on a day of clouds and thick darkness. (Ezekiel 34:12)
In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. “Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour” (Matthew 27:45). As the Light of the World hung on the cross dying, darkness descended over the place named after a skull. All His disciples had been scattered, as if a wolf had snuck in and sent the sheep in every direction.
On the cross, the Good Shepherd lays down His life for the sheep, but with a dead shepherd, how are the sheep to survive? They will be scattered and picked off one by one.
But even though that hill was named for a skull, even though it was the place of death, the tree that was planted there, which bore the weight of the Good Shepherd, has now become the greenest of pastures.
“I will feed them with good pasture, and on the mountain heights of Israel shall be their grazing land. There they shall lie down in good grazing land, and on rich pasture they shall feed on the mountains of Israel. I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I myself will make them lie down, declares the Lord God” (Ezekiel 34-14-15).
On Mount Calvary is the rich pasture for the sheep of the Good Shepherd. From the cross He feeds His sheep with His own Body and Blood. He makes them lie down by the still waters of the baptismal font. He restores souls.
“I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice” (Ezekiel 34:16). This Shepherd is not for the strong, the well-to-do, the healthy. He comes for the runts of the litter. He comes for the last, the least, and the lost. But His justice makes the weak strong, the injured whole, and the lost found. In the Name + of Jesus. Amen.
The Lord’s my shepherd, I’ll not want; He makes me down to lie. In pastures green; He leadeth me The quiet waters by. My soul He doth restore again And me to walk doth make Within the paths of righteousness, E’en for His own name’s sake. (The Lord’s My Shepherd, I’ll Not Want, LSB 710:1-2)
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By Higher Things®Today’s Reading: Ezekiel 34:11-16
Daily Lectionary: Exodus 33:1-23; Luke 7:1-17
As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his sheep that have been scattered, so will I seek out my sheep, and I will rescue them from all places where they have been scattered on a day of clouds and thick darkness. (Ezekiel 34:12)
In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. “Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour” (Matthew 27:45). As the Light of the World hung on the cross dying, darkness descended over the place named after a skull. All His disciples had been scattered, as if a wolf had snuck in and sent the sheep in every direction.
On the cross, the Good Shepherd lays down His life for the sheep, but with a dead shepherd, how are the sheep to survive? They will be scattered and picked off one by one.
But even though that hill was named for a skull, even though it was the place of death, the tree that was planted there, which bore the weight of the Good Shepherd, has now become the greenest of pastures.
“I will feed them with good pasture, and on the mountain heights of Israel shall be their grazing land. There they shall lie down in good grazing land, and on rich pasture they shall feed on the mountains of Israel. I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I myself will make them lie down, declares the Lord God” (Ezekiel 34-14-15).
On Mount Calvary is the rich pasture for the sheep of the Good Shepherd. From the cross He feeds His sheep with His own Body and Blood. He makes them lie down by the still waters of the baptismal font. He restores souls.
“I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice” (Ezekiel 34:16). This Shepherd is not for the strong, the well-to-do, the healthy. He comes for the runts of the litter. He comes for the last, the least, and the lost. But His justice makes the weak strong, the injured whole, and the lost found. In the Name + of Jesus. Amen.
The Lord’s my shepherd, I’ll not want; He makes me down to lie. In pastures green; He leadeth me The quiet waters by. My soul He doth restore again And me to walk doth make Within the paths of righteousness, E’en for His own name’s sake. (The Lord’s My Shepherd, I’ll Not Want, LSB 710:1-2)