Category: Contemplations

‘I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.’ John 10:11 . ‘I am the good Shepherd’: the Lord speaks here about suffering and underlines that it brings salvation to the world. He was not obliged to come; therefore He presents the model of the shepherd and the hired servant …

The Lord sat enthroned at the Flood, And the Lord sits as King forever. The Lord will give strength to His people; The Lord will bless His people with peace. Psalm 29:10-11 . . “A magnificent portrait of the work of the Saviour! He grants us His Person, so that death with all its ways …

“God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ” Ephesians 2:5 . . “The chief end of our life is to live in communion with God. To this end the Son of God became incarnate, …

“I cried out to the LORD because of my affliction, And He answered me. “Out of the belly of Sheol I cried, And You heard my voice.” Jonah 2:2 . “Jonah called on God in his affliction and was rewarded by an immediate response because he saw himself arising not only from the whale’s belly …