Daily Devotion for October 19

SCRIPTURE: Matthew 9:35 - 38

35 Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness. 36 When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. 37 Then he said to his disciples, “the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. 38 Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.

NOTE: Jesus had compassion on them. He considered them sheep without a shepherd .

QUESTION: Do you ever feel like a "sheep without a shepherd"?

What does that mean to feel like a "sheep without a shepherd"?

I don't know much about sheep or being a shepherd.

OBSERVATION

Later, Jesus will send out the apostles to search for those sheep without a shepherd. These folks will be considered lost until THE SHEPHERD finds them.

THIS SUNDAY

we shall sing in the first service, "Amazing Grace." Those familiar lines, "I once was lost, but now am found" are powerful words. that song brings me great joy because it reminds me how "I once was lost, but now am found." How I once was a sheep without a shepherd.

SCRIPTURE TO PONDER

Suppose one of you had a hundred sheep and loses one, what do you do?

Luke 15: 4a