“Cling to the Good Shepherd because there are too many wolves in sheep’s clothing.”

By Misty Strieff Prine

“The closer we are to the shepherd, the safer we are from the wolves.” Jarrid Wilson

            Have you ever wondered why you seem to have one bad thing happen after another? Maybe your life feels like a suspenseful movie that always seems to have a bad ending. Maybe you go to dodge a ball, and you raise up to get hit by ten of them. Bam! Can I ask you something? When is the last time you prayed? When is the last time you got real with God? I'm not talking about the occasional "go to God just when you are down on your luck" or the "just when you need something" kind of times. I'm talking about praising Him for the life you have...every aspect of it...the good and the bad. We need to thank God for all that He sees fit to give us. We need to learn to go to Him before we search for answers in this world which leads us to even more misery and hopelessness.

For the Lord is our shepherd and we are His sheep. Just like a good shepherd does, when one sheep goes astray from the fold, He searches for that one lonely sheep in order that it may be brought back into the fold to fellowship and be kept safe by Him. He knows that the wayward sheep will not fare well among the wolves, and neither will we in this world without Him.

May we never get so outside of the will of God that we don't see the wolves, sin and the enemy lurking around every corner waiting to attack us. Being a Christian is not a religion but a relationship with God. We need Him every single second of every single day. When things seem to spiral downward, we need to examine our hearts carefully. Have we fallen out of fellowship with God? Have we drifted far away from Him? When is the last time we prayed? When was the last time we simply thanked Him? Maybe that's the problem. We have forsaken God. May we never get so caught up in the things of this world and our "woe is me" attitudes that we walk away so easily from the One who died for us all.