Fourth Sunday of Easter - Gospel: John 10:27-30

John 10:27-30 My sheep hear my voice and follow me to eternal life. The Father has given them to me. The Father and I are one.

27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me;
28 and I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish, and no one shall snatch them out of my hand.
29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.
30 I and the Father are one.”
The Holy Bible : Revised Standard Version Second Catholic edition (2006), with the ecclesiastical approval of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Thomas Nelson Publishing for Ignatius Press.

The sheep knew His voice!
One of the results of the resurrection is that Jesus wants us to hear his voice and follow it in this world.
I think we are too easily distracted in the rush of the modern world.
Maybe we aren’t deaf to the words of Jesus, maybe we don’t have a hearing problem as much as we hear what we want to hear and we tune out Jesus and tune in on the sounds and words of the present world.

Do you believe?
The Jews heard, but didn’t believe. They saw his signs, but didn’t get the message.
We have heard His words down through the centuries in the Bible, through preaching, through the sacraments, it has been made clear that Jesus is the Christ, the risen Lord.
We have seen His deeds as Holy Spirit has worked in the lives of humanity, but many still don’t believe.

Shepherd
In his book, A Turtle on the Fencepost, Allen C. Emery tells of a night he spent on the Texas plains with a shepherd who was keeping two thousand sheep.
The shepherd prepared a bonfire for cooking supper and providing warmth. The sheep dogs lay down near the fire as the stars filled the sky.
Suddenly Emery heard the unmistakable wail of a coyote with an answering call from the other side of the range.
The dogs weren’t patrolling at the moment, and the coyotes seemed to know it.
Rising quickly, the shepherd tossed some more logs on the fire; and in this light, Emery looked out at the sheep and saw thousands of little lights.

Coyote
Emery writes, "I realized that these were reflections of the fire in the eyes of the sheep.
In the midst of the danger, the sheep weren’t looking out into the darkness, but were keeping their eyes the shepherd.“
We need to keep our eyes on the Shepherd, always looking to Jesus the author and finisher of our faith.
If a coyote is wailing within earshot, then like the sheep in the story, turn your eyes on the true shepherd, Jesus.

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Fourth Sunday of Easter - Gospel: John 10:27-30

by Daniel Mayne Sr. on Apr 17, 2010

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