Today's Scripture
TODAY’S READING SCHEDULE: Ezekiel 8-10; John 10:1-23
Living to the fullness – John 10:1-10
1 I assure you that whoever doesn’t enter into the sheep pen through the gate but climbs over the wall is a thief and an outlaw. 2 The one who enters through the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 The guard at the gate opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. 4 Whenever he has gathered all of his sheep, he goes before them and they follow him, because they know his voice. 5 They won’t follow a stranger but will run away because they don’t know the stranger’s voice.” 6 Those who heard Jesus use this analogy didn’t understand what he was saying.
7 So Jesus spoke again, “I assure you that I am the gate of the sheep. 8 All who came before me were thieves and outlaws, but the sheep didn’t listen to them. 9 I am the gate. Whoever enters through me will be saved. They will come in and go out and find pasture. 10 The thief enters only to steal, kill, and destroy. I came so that they could have life—indeed, so that they could live life to the fullest.
What does this passage mean to me/us?
What does it mean to live our’ life to the fullest?’ If that is the reason Jesus came to this world, shouldn’t we all be living it out?
We need to remember that Jesus said, ‘whoever enters through me will be saved,’ which also means that when we live in Jesus, we can live our life to the fullness. Many attempts to pull us away from Jesus. The thieves may even crawl over the walls to pull us out because they know that life outside of Jesus is not living in the fullness.
Living in fullness means we have a personal relationship with our Lord. In the relationship, we learn not only to believe but to fully belong… in other words obey.
Are we living our lives to the fullness?
Prayer
Lord, reveal your truth in our lives. Help us to follow you ways. In Christ name we pray, Amen.
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