Some do look quite odd to outsiders…
“Behold, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.”
Matthew 10:16 BSB
Willing Vessel
Sheep
Ninety-Nine
Wandering on fallow ground? Come back to the fold.
“What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the pasture and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?”
Luke 15:4 BSB
On Bent Knees
Some sheep kneel while they eat.
“Give us this day our daily bread.”
Matthew 6:11 NKJV
Sheep
You may think you’re a goat, but He knows those who are truly His.
“My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand.”
John 10:27-28 BSB
The Good Shepherd
We are united in Christ. There is no Jew or Gentile.
“I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd.”
John 10:16 NIV