John 10:14b devotional

Some time ago for Christmas my wife had given me a devotional book by Charles Spurgeon called “Morning and Evening” (I recommend this book to all). Now over the last year I have been attempting to write devotionals on specific scriptures the Lord has given to me. I tell you there are times when I sit down to write that my hand can’t even keep up with my mind. Other times (which is more often then the first) I find myself sitting and meditating on one passage of scripture for hours. But nothing comes out, an hour goes, and still nothing comes out (my wife has come to terms with the fact that I am crazy in this way) an hour and a half goes still nothing comes out. By this point I usually get frustrated and turn in for the night and as I come to bed my wife asks me well what did you write, (I tell her well I wrote out the scripture very nicely on the paper and maybe one or two sentence’s, and then she laughs) Please note: her laughs are in love (at least I think they are). So to make a long story short I wanted to share this devotional I wrote about 3 months ago on John 10:14b. I did use a couple of quotes one is from Spurgeon and the other is from Manton, you will find them italicized.

I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, And am known by My own. John 10:14b

It is to those who have received Him, through the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Spirit (being born again) that the Master will call His own. The Lord knows those who are His, and to His own He calls by name and leads them out. We should not be content to just know of Him, because it is through a knowing relationship with our Lord that we our brought to a absolute certainty of our place in the sheepfold. (“Faith must be a confident knowledge; not “I think” I hope” but rather “I know” is the language of faith”1st). We know the voice of our redeemer, so let us not be swayed to follow the world or be conformed to this world which should be a stranger to us. Rather when we hear (“His voice & feel His holy presence let us with out hesitation follow Him, and follow Him closely”2nd). Beloved, if you have found yourself treading the miry clay, if you have found your self swallowed up by the seas of desperation, if you have found your self lost amid a world of questionable uncertainties, let this truth not escape you, for He Himself has said, (“I will never leave you nor forsake you”3rd). Paul tells us (“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulations, or distress, or persecutions, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword 4th)? There is nothing! But with out this truth of being known with a knowing and personal relationship with our Lord, with out that we are lost and helpless amid a dying & hurting world. And if Christ in not found in you this day I plead with you to look unto Jesus and flee to Him at once.

1. (Manton).

2. (Spurgeon).

3. (Hebrews 13:5).

4. (Romans 8:35).

Jason Villalobos.