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Isaiah chapter 53, verse 6.

All we like sheep have gone astray.

We have turned everyone to his own way.

And the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

There is so much we could talk about Soken in just this one verse.

It's just a small part of this whole chapter that's talking about Jesus.

The verses right before this talk about how he would carry our sorrows

and be pierced for our transgressions and crushed for our iniquities.

But the reason I want to lead us to pray specifically according to verse 6 is because of this imagery of us as sheep going astray from our shepherd.

Like I think about being in a North African desert with a Bedouin people group.

So this pastoral nomadic shepherding people with sheep all around.

And it was just seeing all this imagery from scripture coming to life as I talked

with these shepherds who care for their sheep and yet their sheep are prone to wander

and I just want you to get this picture in a fresh way today of God at the God of the universe

the sovereign omnipotent ruler of all, who is infinitely

good and infinitely loving and infinitely kind in his word. He says, I am your shepherd.

Like, I know you. I see you, and I will lead you for your good.

And then see in a fresh way how you and I are prone to wander from our shepherd to go astray from him.

Just consider in your life right now, how are you prone to go astray to your own way instead of

his?

And then as you think about that, as you think about all the ways you have done that, I have done

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