We believers are symbolised by sheep, those who are under Christ’s organic shepherding; the Lord Himself comes as the Shepherd to search for His sheep and seek them out, and He brings them into the enjoyment of the resurrected and ascended Christ, even to the church life where we can be richly fed with all that Christ is in His riches.
Lord Jesus, we love You as our Shepherd! We open to You. We want to remain here under Your shepherding. Shepherd us more today. We are Your sheep, Lord, and You are our Shepherd. Thank You for seeking us out and bringing us back to Yourself as our portion. Thank You for constantly searching for us, in all our backsliding and scattering, to bring us back to the flock to enjoy You with all the saints! Amen, Lord, we love Your organic shepherding! Amen!
It is so sweet to know that we are sheep and the Lord is our shepherd! Throughout the Bible we see that God says He is our Shepherd and we are His sheep.
Both in the Old and in the New Testament, we see that the Lord is our Shepherd and we are His flock. He cares for us dearly. He shepherds us.
Even Jacob, at the end of his life, testified that, through all the ups and downs, God shepherded him all the days of his life. From the very beginning, God considered Himself as the Shepherd and us, His people, as His sheep.
In all ways, God took care of His people; He cared for them and He cares for us not as ordinary people or as His creatures but as His sheep.
There is a very precious and sweet relationship between the Shepherd and the sheep.
We are not only God’s creatures, even those who are made in the image of God and with His likeness; we are His sheep. We are the Lord’s sheep enjoying His shepherding. He shepherds us every day.
In this age, He is our Shepherd, and for eternity, He will still shepherd us. He is the Lamb on the throne, always reminding us that we are sheep and He’s our Shepherd.
He accomplished redemption for us as the Lamb of God, and He is continually shepherding us today and will forever shepherd us to springs of living water.
As the Lord’s sheep, we enjoy the Lord’s shepherding today and for eternity, for His shepherding care is for us as His sheep.
We all know Psalm 23 as the psalm speaking about the Lord as our Shepherd, and we also know that in John 10 the Lord spoke of being the Shepherd.
But we want to focus on Ezekiel 34:11-31 to see how the Lord is our Shepherd and how He shepherds us. We today are under the Lord’s organic shepherding! Amen!
The Lord Himself Comes as the Shepherd to Search for His Sheep and Bring them into the Enjoyment of Christ in the Church Life
In Ezekiel 34 the Lord presents Himself as the Shepherd to His people, and He was rebuking the elders of Israel, who were supposed to shepherd His people, but they were not doing their job. Instead of shepherding the people, they were feeding themselves.
So the Lord said that He Himself will come and search for His sheep and seek them out (Ezek. 34:11). The Lord Jesus Himself comes as the Shepherd to search for His sheep and seek them out (Ezek. 34:11-31; Luke 15:3-7; Rev. 7:17; John 21:15-17; 1 Pet. 2:25; 5:3-4).
We can testify that, because of our fallen condition, we were all buried under many evil things, and we needed the Lord to come and search for us.
As we see in Luke 15, the shepherd was seeking the lost sheep and the woman lights the lamp to search for the lost coin. The Son, Christ, came to seek us as His lost sheep, and the Spirit lights the lamp of the word of God to search for us.
As prodigal sons, we were drawn home by the searching of the Spirit and the shepherding of Christ the Son.
The Lord Himself comes as the Shepherd to search us and seek us out. He delivers us from all the places where we have been scattered, and He brings us out from the peoples and gathers us from the countries and brings us into our own land.
Thank the Lord for bringing us out of sin and the world and into His flock. Thank the Lord that He has brought us out of any scattering among the many denominations in Christianity and into the wonderful church life today where we can enjoy Him in all His riches.
We were lost not only in the world; we are also lost in our mind, in our soul, in the things that Satan uses to usurp us even as believers in Christ.
On the one hand, the Lord searched for us and sought us out in the world and brought us into His flock through regeneration.
On the other hand, even though we became believers in Christ, the Lord still comes as the Shepherd to seek us and bring us out of many things into the enjoyment of Christ in the church life.
We backslid into degraded Christianity, and we were buried under many things such as doctrines, forms, gifts, and religious practices.
Thank the Lord for coming to seek us in the divisions and denominations, and thank Him for bringing us into the enjoyment of Christ in the church life with all the saints.
He sought us out, and He searched for us; both outwardly and inwardly, He was operating and still is operating to shepherd us, for we are under His organic shepherding.
Even when we’re in the meetings of the church, the Lord is still shepherding us, for we may be there physically, but our mind and our being may not be there.
So many times we backslide; we simply go back to the enjoyment of things in the world, and we are lost in our mind and in the things of this world.
Yes, we may be in the church life, with the saints, but we may not be there with our whole being but rather, we may enjoy many things of this world, and we are not enjoying the Lord.
So the Lord as the Shepherd comes to search us, seek us out, and bring us back to the enjoyment of Himself in the church life with all the saints.
He brings us again and again our of many things into Himself as our rich pasture.
Just as He shepherded His earthly people Israel and brought them back to the good land, their own land, so today the Lord shepherds us and brings us into the enjoyment of the all-inclusive Christ as our good land, our own land.
Today we enjoy the all-inclusive Christ together with all the saints in the church life. Thank the Lord that we are brought back to Christ and the church life where we have the riches and the enjoyment of the good land!
Lord Jesus, thank You for being our Shepherd who searches for us and seeks us out! Thank You for finding us in the world and bringing us back to the enjoyment of Christ in the church life. Oh Lord, thank You for Your organic shepherding. We open to You. You see where we are, how we are doing, and what is the inward condition of our being. You see how scattered we are, how far away from You we are many times, and how little we enjoy You. We open to Your shepherding! Amen, Lord, bring us out of any degradation and scattering and into the enjoyment of Christ in the church life with all the saints as Your flock! Hallelujah, Christ Himself as our Shepherd promises to bring us, His people as His sheep, out of any scattering and division and into the enjoyment of the all-inclusive Christ as our good land! Amen, Lord, bring us into the full enjoyment of the all-inclusive Christ together with all the saints in the church life. Shepherd us all the way into the enjoyment of Your riches with the saints as Your flock! We love Your shepherding! Amen!
Christ as our Shepherd Brings us to enjoy the Resurrected and Ascended Christ and Drink of the Streams of the Spirit as the Living Water
As seen in Ezekiel 31:13-14, the Lord promises to bring us as His people back not only to our own land but also to the mountains of the heights. He brings us back to the experience of the resurrected and ascended Christ.
Thank the Lord for His wonderful shepherding. We don’t know where we are, what is the condition of our inner being is, and what our problem; we are like sheep, easily distracted and attracted by anything that seems to be nice.
The Lord brings us as His sheep into our own land and to the high mountains. He brings us to enjoy the resurrected and ascended Christ in the church life today (Col. 1:12).
He brings us into our own land; the good land of Canaan is a type of the all-inclusive Christ. We belong here, in the good land, enjoying the all-inclusive Christ day by day.
We are many times scattered, in our depression, in a low condition, but the Lord brings us back to our own land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
He wants us to be scattered no more; He brings us back to enjoying Him as the resurrected and ascended Christ.
We are many times low in the valley, but the Lord brings us by His shepherding to enjoy Him on the mountain, even to partake of His riches as the resurrected and ascended Christ.
Thank the Lord for all the experiences He arranges for us to have so that we may enjoy and experience the resurrected and ascended Christ.
May we keep our whole being open to the Lord so that He may fully bring us back into the enjoyment of Christ in the church life together with all His sheep.
Here, in our own land, in the enjoyment of the all-inclusive Christ in the church life, we are richly fed by Him.
The Lord brings us as His sheep back to the streams, signifying the life-giving Spirit, and He feeds His flock by the streams, signifying His feeding the believers with His riches (Ezek. 34:13; Rev. 22:1-2a; 1 Cor. 12:13; Psa. 36:8).
Many times we have problems and we sin because we are undernourished; we are not properly fed. The world has things to offer to us, but these are not our food; they rather poison us than feed us.
Christianity has many things to feed us with, but they only make us more thirsty and hungry, and we are not satisfied. Only Christ as our Shepherd can really give us something of Himself for us to eat and drink and be satisfied.
What satisfies is just Christ as our all-inclusive good land. What really quenches our thirst is the life-giving Spirit flowing out of the crucified Christ. From the mountains, the resurrected and ascended Christ, the living water of the Spirit flows.
Thank the Lord for not only for seeking us out and bringing us back to Himself, but even more, for bringing us to streams of water of life, the flowing life-giving Spirit, for us to drink deeply of Him and be filled with Him.
The last Adam became a life-giving Spirit, and this life-giving Spirit is now our portion today. When we exercise our spirit and contact the Lord, when we call on His name and pray-read His word, we drink the Spirit.
We are given to drink one Spirit, and this Spirit is all-inclusive, life-giving, and richly supplying. He is so available, so accessible, and so ready for us to drink of Him.
We can testify that today in the church life this is what the Lord is doing; He is bringing us back to the enjoyment of Christ in the church life so that we may enjoy His riches and drink the life-giving Spirit as streams of water of life.
The Lord feeds us as His flock by the streams. As we meet with the saints in the meetings of the local church, we can testify that He feeds us by the streams of the life-giving Spirit.
We are no longer dry but we are richly fed, for our thirst is quenched by the flowing Spirit and our hunger is satisfied by the rich supply of the all-inclusive Christ in and with all the saints.
Today we have the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ; He flows as a stream to feed us and quench our thirst.
How good it is to be under the organic shepherding of Christ! He flows as a stream of living water, and He nourishes us with all His riches. Thank the Lord for His shepherding.
May we remain open to Him and let Him seek us out, search for us, and bring us into the enjoyment of Christ in the church life with all the saints. May we deeply drink of the river of His pleasures and be gladdened as the city of God!
Lord Jesus, thank You for coming as our Shepherd to bring us into the enjoyment of the all-inclusive Christ as our good land! Hallelujah, we today are being brought back by our Shepherd to our land, our good land! Oh Lord, we come back to You! We return to You to enjoy You and partake of You. You are so rich. We love to be here in our land, the all-inclusive Christ, enjoying the riches of Christ and drinking the river of living water! Shepherd us today, Lord, and bring us back to the enjoyment of Christ with the saints again and again. Keep us here in the rich enjoyment of the all-inclusive Christ as our good land with all the saints. Feed us as Your flock by the streams. Feed us and feed all the believers with Your riches. Oh Lord Jesus, we fully open to Your organic shepherding. Flow in us as a stream of water of life. We love You, Lord, and we open to Your shepherding. We don’t know where we are and what is the condition of our inner being, but we open to Your wonderful shepherding today!
References and Hymns on this Topic
- Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by brother James Lee on this topic, and portions from, Life-study of Ezekiel, pp. 175-178, by Witness Lee, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, The Believers (1) (2026 July Semi-Annual Training), week 5, “Living Stones and Sheep” – day 4.
- Hymns on this topic:
– Jesus, our wonderful Shepherd / Brought us right out of the fold / Into His pasture so plenteous, / Into His riches untold. / Glorious church life, / Feasting from such a rich store! / Here where we’re dwelling in oneness / God commands life evermore. (Hymns #1221 stanza 1 and chorus)
– The King of love my Shepherd is, / Whose goodness faileth never; / I nothing lack if I am His, / And He is mine forever. / Where streams of living water flow / My ransomed soul He leadeth, / And, where the verdant pastures grow, / With food celestial feedeth. (Hymns #528 stanzas 1-2)
– Splendid church life! His green garden! / He has brought us, praise the Lord, / To experience the Christ Who’s growing here! / He is full of rich enjoyment / To His saints in one accord; / He is new and fresh, available and dear. / I’m so happy in this lovely place, / In the garden growing in His grace! / There is no finer pleasure / Than to eat the living tree / And to get the living water into me. (Hymns #1237 stanza 1 and chorus)
