Moses asked the Lord to “set a man over the congregation, Which may go out before them, and which may go in before them, and which may lead them out, and which may bring them in; that the congregation of the Lord be not as sheep which have no shepherd” (Numbers 27:16-17).
God appointed Joshua to serve as a shepherd to Israel. Moses had been a shepherd to sheep and also a shepherd to people. He knew that the person to succeed him would need to have the characteristics of a shepherd. He did not want the people to be “as sheep which have no shepherd.”
Ezekiel 34:5 gives a bleak look at what happens to sheep when they do not have a shepherd. “And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.” Zechariah 10:2 describes people who “were troubled, because there was no shepherd.”
It is a dangerous thing for sheep to be without a shepherd!
The same is true for us. We are supposed to work and be responsible and do all that grownup stuff. But at our core, we are sheep in need of a Shepherd.
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