Scouting the Divine - The Good Shepherd

This week's study finishes part 1-- The Good Shepherd.


Through a visit with a shepherdess, Margaret Feinberg uncovers the significance of the many references to sheep and shepherds in the Bible. Psalm 23: The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He leads me beside still waters. Thy rod and staff comfort me.

Psalm 23

Did you know that sheep cannot find water on their own? That they will not drink from rushing waters? Did you know that shepherds were the young and the old and the women? Think David, youngest son of Jesse; Rachel, youngest daughter of Laban; Moses, old when he was sent to Egypt to recue the people.

So when, in Luke 2, the angels first appear to the shepherds, they were appearing to the least of society, a group on the margins of society, unable to keep the rabinic laws by nature of their profession, unclean and smelly from living with sheep. No wonder the shepherds were terrified. But God, in his wise, generous, and loving way, asked the shepherd to go, not to a huge palace, but to a manger, a barn, a place shepherds would feel at home.

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