Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace.

This year, we want to spend a few minutes with you every day walking through our study Christ and all of Scripture.

Each week we will dive deeply into two passages of Scripture, one from the Old Testament and one from the New,

seeing how they connect and point to Jesus.

Whether you are doing the study yourself or just following along with us here, we are

hopeful that through studying these passages each week, you will see how Christ is not only present

throughout the entire biblical story, but the center of it.

Hey friends, welcome back to a year in the Bible. My name is Beth, and I'm here with my co-host, Alexa.

Hey, everyone. So this week,

we have looked at Ezekiel 34, 7 through 16 and John 10, 11 through 15. And we've learned how

Jesus is the good shepherd who fulfills God's promise to shepherd his people. As we wrap up this

week, we want to do so by discussing how we can practically apply all that we have learned from

this week's passages. So, Alexa, how do you plan on applying what you learned? Yeah, something that I've

been meditating on is intimacy. I have with Christ. I love what Jesus says in John 1014. I know my

own and my own know me. That is such a special picture of the intimate relationship that we

have with Christ. That's not a surface level knowing. It's a deep knowing. And I think I often

don't take seriously the intimate relationship that I have with Christ. I think I'm more prone

to rely on the relationships I have with others over my relationship with Christ. And I think one

area that I want to grow in that I think will help me take seriously my relationship with Christ

is listening to Jesus' voice. Earlier in John 10, Jesus says that the sheep hear his voice,

he calls them by name, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice. And so we see that

intimate picture again as Jesus knows his people by name and his people recognize his voice

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