4th Sunday of Easter

John 10:1-10

“Is the Lord your Shepherd?”

Beloved, you are sheep. Christ’s sheep. Be sheep. Often it is said

we need more leaders and less followers. But in the case of Christ

as your Shepherd, what we really need is more followers, more who

follow and find delight in submitting to and receiving the

Shepherd’s voice. Be sheep. Your shepherd comes into your midst

to speak to you in the service of the word and feed you in the service of the sacrament.

Christ the Lamb Shepherd’s His sheep. Your Shepherd took the mauling of the predator-

sin, death and the devil, for you on the shepherd’s crook of the cross. God the Father has

wakened from death the Shepherd of the sheep, and by the Holy Spirit we hear the voice

of our Shepherd, we know Him who calls us each by name and follow where He leads.