Jehovah My Shepherd

Jehovah-Raah, The Lord is My Shepherd

John 10:11 “I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd layeth down his life for the sheep”

 In John 10, Jesus declares Himself to be the Shepherd of the sheep. One of the most quoted scriptures in our Bibles is Psalms 23, “The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want. Verse 1 of this Psalm actually declares a Jehovah name, Jehovah-Raah or Jehovah my Shepherd. As a Shepherd of the sheep of Israel, God shepherded the children of Israel from the bondages of Egypt into the land of Canaan. They were led by God through Moses, with the presence of God in their midst as a cloud by day and a fire by night, from Egyptian slavery into a land of milk and honey, God’s provision. Israel was given the land that God provided for them.

In John 10 Jesus makes many profound statements in regards to being the Shepherd of the sheep. In verse 10 He declares that He is the door, and if an many enter the door they shall go in and out and find pasture. The question I want pose, is if I go into the door who is Christ, why would I ever come out? In the past I had ideas that we would go in and gain understanding, revelation, or knowledge and come out into the earth and share or minister what we gained.

However, I believe I have seen by the Spirit of the Lord a much deeper and clearer understanding to what Jesus is saying. In Egypt when the Israelites celebrated the first Passover, they killed the lamb and put the blood around the door frame, and entered the door. They did not come out of the door until the breaking of the new day. This is a picture of what Jesus is saying. He is the door that we enter into. We enter into the door of Jesus Christ through His Blood, and eat the lamb until the breaking of the new day. When we come out of the door we come out in a new origin. We come out as a new creation created of God in Christ Jesus.

In other words, I believe Jesus to be saying we would go into his death and burial, and originate out of His life. We go into Him, and our old man is put away as we eat His flesh and drink His Blood. We now come out of Him as a new creation man. Our life is no longer found in the earth, but in Christ. The pasture we find as His sheep is His abundant life. He leads us into rest as the Shepherd of our souls. He restores our souls from the man of earth and into the man of Spirit through the renewing of our minds.

Jesus is the fulfillment of the Jehovah my Shepherd. He is the good shepherd that takes us out of the Egyptian slavery of our flesh, and leads us into the life of the Spirit of God. Blessings to All!