One thing I noticed as we drove from southern Utah to Salt Lake City was sheep, lots and lots of sheep. There were some cattle, and we spotted some horses, but sheep seemed to be the predominant livestock. They seemed to be contented sheep, grazing away in pastures next to the busy highway. Their caretakers had put a fence around them to keep them from wandering into the busy road, and probably to keep dangers from entering their pastures. They had food and water.
A little further into the Psalm that we looked at yesterday, Psalm 95, after the psalmist invited us in the opening verses to sing for joy and shout to the Rock of our Salvation, he invited us to also bow down and kneel in worship.
Ps 95:6-7: “Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the LORD our Maker; for he is our God and we are the people of his pasture, the flock under his care.”
The psalmist is quite clear in his reasoning for his instructions to bow down and kneel … we do so because the LORD our Maker is our God and we are His people, His flock. And, the best part of all, we are “under His care.”
The LORD our Maker, our God, takes care of His flock, us. He has put us in His pasture where He provides everything we need for “life and godliness.” [2 Peter 1:3]
He has put a fence of protection around us. He has provided us with spiritual food and living water. He watches over us constantly. No matter what might happen in this world, in this life, our Shepherd will take us into glory. Man may come against us, man might even kill our bodies, but he can do no lasting harm to us … we go straight to the loving arms of the LORD our Maker. We have divine and eternal assurance that is ours because we are the “flock under His care.”
