Art: Garden of Eden, artist unknown
The daughter
Of a king
Is a princess
But the wife
Of a king
Is a queen
Rev 19:7-9
“Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready…Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb.”
Genesis 3:20
“And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.”
What is that which flows
From the temple
That is the Word of God
The water which flows
From the mouth of the river
Revelations 22:1
“And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.”
All my life
The Bible has been
A presence in my home
First as a child
We had a huge KJV
And although I could not read
I loved looking at the pictures
And I loved hearing the stories
My Dad told us
Then my grandparents
Gave me my own Bible as a gift
When I was 16
And I vowed to read it before I died
And 17 years later
I finished it
So all my life
The lamb he gave me to feed
I fed him the word of God
Until he ate it all up
And was full
Then did my lord
Come for his lamb
The lamb is my flock
The one he put in my care
St. John 21:15
“…He said unto him, Feed my lambs.”
The darkness exists
Only so we can see the light
Darkness is the illusion
We are the light
Within the darkness
For there exists no darkness
Within the light
Rev 21:23
“And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.”
Now Jesus is the good shepherd.
He leaves his entire flock to find one lost sheep.
We can see this two ways:
The shepherd leaves his flock to find the lost sheep.
He is gone for what seems like forever.
He finally finds the lost sheep.
He picks him up and turns around to go home,
And there is his entire flock,
Those who followed him,
Those who were looking for him.
Or we can say,
He left his entire flock to find the lost sheep,
But luckily for him,
When he opened the gate,
He found the lamb was just outside the gate,
And he brought him into the fold.
Who then was lost?
None were lost.
But the question remains,
Are we the lost lamb—
The one who struck out on his own,
Jesus Christ–the shepherd who follows him to find him,
Or the flock that followed Jesus Christ?
There are those who come before Christ,
Those who follow,
And those who walk with him through time.
We are all these.
The nursery rhyme holds true:
“Mary had a little lamb
Its fleece was white as snow
And everywhere that Mary went
The lamb was sure to go.
It followed her to school one day
Which was against the rules.
It made the children laugh and play
To see a lamb at school.
And so the teacher turned it out
But still it lingered near
And waited patiently about
Till Mary did appear
Why does the lamb love Mary so?
The eager children cry
Why, Mary loves the lamb, you know
The teacher did reply.”
