Imagine Heaven Sample

Sheep among wolves

By Rev. Roger Woller, Chaplain

It is not easy to be a Christian. Never has been, and never will be. Do not expect everyone whom you meet or talk to about Jesus to like you and to believe in the same way as you do. Do not expect people to like you when you let your Christian faith shine. 

When you share your faith with a person who does not believe that what the Bible says is true, don’t expect him or her to agree with you. You may tell this person what it means to you to be sure that you going to heaven because of what Jesus has done for you, not because you deserve to go to heaven. 

However, he or she may not appreciate what you say or believe. When you are honest about your faith in Jesus, Jesus tells you what to expect.  

Just as he told his disciples what to do and what to expect, Jesus tells us the same. This has not changed. He is telling us, his disciples of 2020, “Look, I am sending you out as sheep among wolves. So be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.”

We are his sheep. Jesus is our Good Shepherd. Jesus laid down his life for his sheep, and he leads us through this valley of the shadow of death to heaven to be with him forever. 

We live in a world of unbelieving wolves, but our Good Shepherd is always there feeding us with his precious promises of the Gospel. “Come to me all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” (Matthew 11:28)

We, his sheep, know that we are sinful and have fallen far short of God’s perfection. We are honest with that truth, and we patiently and courageously – and with discretion – share that truth with the wolves of the world. With the innocence of a dove, however, we show the wolves the Good Shepherd, who laid down his life for them, too. 

Prayer: Dear Father in heaven, fill me with the Spirit of truth so that I, as a sheep of the Good Shepherd, may always be a faithful witness to the truth of the Gospel and never be ashamed. Fill me with the truth of the Gospel. Make me wise unto salvation and always courageous to be your witness. Amen.