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 …

“For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” – Matthew 12:40 . “Just as Jonah was cast in the belly of the whale, likewise the Lord Jesus, descended voluntarily …