No Need To Worry
One of the things that fascinates me is to see how Jesus looked at people. Unlike most of us, when Jesus looked at people, He didn't see nameless faces, bland personalities, a bunch of hang ups or hiccups. He saw people as sheep. Most of us in this culture really can't appreciate what that means, because we don't live in an agricultural culture where shepherd and sheep are abundant. In that day and age, shepherding was a very intimate occupation. The shepherd knew each one of his sheep by name and he had one job - to provide for the sheep and to protect the sheep. The very existence of a sheep depended on the care and the leadership of the shepherd and that helps you to understand this verse,
"Seeing the people, He felt compassion for them, because they were distressed and dispirited like sheep without a shepherd." (Matthew 9:36, NASB)
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Keywords: worry, stress, trust, fear
