There’s something comforting when the Good Shepherd calls His sheep by name. The Shepherd that she was so close to stood right beside her. “Mary…” Was it the tone of His voice and the way He said her name that brought her to realize it was Jesus standing right beside her. She was in such a disarray that Jesus was standing right by her, but she wasn’t clear enough until…Her dear friend called her by name.
#The voice of the shepherd full
She was in full blown grief over His death, but on top of that, someone had taken His body out of the tomb. Remember when Mary Magdalene found herself broken-hearted and weeping at the tomb of Jesus. Our Shepherd’s voice confidently leads the way. One that they have spent time with and have become familiar with. But, as the Shepherd speaks, calling them by name, it’s a voice they have learned they can safely follow. As strangers approach the sheep, their voice isn’t recognizable as the one who cares for them, and so they run away. But they will never follow a stranger in fact, they will run away from him because they do not recognize a stranger’s voice.” When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice. The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. “The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. In John 10:2-5, Jesus describes the purpose and impact and importance of the Shepherd’s voice. Voices that conflict, voices that tempt or sway. Voices on tv, voices on social media, on the news, political voices, religious voices, voices that judge, put down or label, voices that supposedly identify perfection or success. As you know well, there are many voices that surround us. What about those voices that sound familiar? The ones where you know you’ve heard the voice before, but can’t seem to pinpoint who it is? But the more you talk, it comes back and you recall the voice as a friend in the past, one you haven’t connected with in a while. What makes a voice familiar to you? How do you know who’s on the other end? As I’m sure you’ve already concluded, those you spend time with, those you engage in conversations with, are the voices you recognize more quickly.
COON are dead giveaways they don’t even know my name! Then there are the calls when even after the first few words, you are 100% sure it’s a stranger: AKA telemarketer. Don’t you just love those times, though, when you answer, you don’t recognize the voice, and the caller doesn’t say who they are, but carries on the conversation as if you should know who it is! Sometimes you figure it out, but other times you hang up and still have no idea who you have just spoken with. Other times, the person begins by telling you their name, identifying themselves right away. Sometimes it’s someone so familiar you recognize the voice after the first word spoken – your husband, child, mom, dad.
You answer hello, and anticipate who is on the other line. Your phone rings, (you know – the one that just rings – the one before cell phones that display the name and sometimes even the picture of the person calling). John 10:4Īre there certain voices in your life that evoke certain emotions, or take you back to certain events – good or bad? Are there ones that by merely hearing the voice, you can distinguish who it belongs to? Let’s take a phone call, for example. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
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