Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks.

Where we connect the Bible to your life.

In the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Jeff Parrot. Imagine that you're walking through the countryside, surrounded

by rolling hills leading to a majestic cliff. You're soaking in the scenery, yet out of the corner of your eye you see a sheep walk toward a cliff and then step right off of it.

Now you'd probably think that the sheep was confused, maybe a little bit crazy, but what if you didn't just see one sheep walking off of the cliff, but hundreds?

That's exactly what happened in Turkey nearly 20 years ago when around 1500 sheep followed one of their fluffy friends right off of a cliff, one sheep after another until 1500 sheep followed one another over that ledge

ultimately in a tragic way killing 450 of them you see the big problem for those sheep, don't you?

If you blindly follow someone or something without thinking about where they're taking you,

well, it can destroy you. What if you're more like those sheep than you'd like to admit?

What if you're following the crowd somewhere you don't really want to go,

but you're too oblivious to notice it right now? And if it's true that we're following someone or

something in our lives, what would it look like to follow the God of the Bible?

And why would following Him be worth it

compared to the other options on offer?

For generations, Psalm 100 has been

one of many parts of the Bible that give us a sense of what it looks like to follow

God as our good shepherd while also clarifying why we can trust him to lead us into true

abundant life.

As we prepare to engage with God's word,

let's slow down and pray, ask for his love

to move through our time together.

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