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Even before he became king, God was leading and shepherding his people through David.

And now as he becomes king, God is clearly saying to David that one of his responsibilities as

king is to be a good shepherd for God's people. What a great picture, isn't it? What imagery that

the king, the ruler of the land, would be described as a shepherd, a shepherd king.

And this is exactly the picture that God desires for us to see today, not in king David from

the past, but in king Jesus. This is where this imagery really comes to life. Jesus, the Lord

and king over all, the one to whom all authority in heaven and earth belongs. The king of kings

is your shepherd. My shepherd, we're sheep. He loves us and leads us and nourishes us and feeds us

and cherishes us and protects us like a shepherd does his sheep. Like this picture is all over the

Bible. God described as shepherd, I think about Genesis 48, 15, when Jacob is saying,

my God, who has been my shepherd all my life long to this day. He's honest death that he's

looking back and he says, God has been my shepherd. This is King David saying in Psalm 23, the most

beloved Psalm. The Lord is my shepherd. This is Jesus saying in John chapter 10,

I am the good shepherd. And this is the picture we have in Revelation chapter 7, when every nation

tribe in Tonga is gathered around the throne of God and we see Jesus described as the shepherd

of our souls all the way to the end. And so we pray, oh God, all glory be to your name,

our shepherd king. Jesus, we praise you as being king and Lord overall, as being the

savior of our sin and as being the shepherd of our souls. We praise you for leading us, guiding us.

We look to you today. We confess that we are sheep and we realize that sheep are not that

sharp of an animal. They are not that smart. They're not fast. They're fairly defenseless. There's

a lot of things about sheep that accurately describe who we are. Jesus, we need you to shepherd

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