Lord & Shepherd

When Lloyd Douglas, author of The Robe, attended university, he lived in a boarding house. A retired wheel-chair bound music professor resided on the first floor.

Each morning Douglas would stick his head in the professor’s door and ask, What’s the good news?”The old man would tap his tuning fork on his wheelchair and say, “That’s middle C ! It was middle C yesterday. It will be middle C tomorrow, and it will be middle C in a thousand years from now. The tenor upstairs sings flat. The piano across the hall is out of tune, but, my friend, that is middle C.”And don’t we all need a middle C? Haven’t we had enough changes?

Relationship changes. Job changes. Health changes. Weather changes. But the One who ruled the earth last nite is the same One who rules it today. He never changes. From everlasting to everlasting, You are God (Ps 90:2) Counsellors may comfort us in the storm, but we need a God who can still the storm. Friends may hold our hand at our hand, but ultimately we need the One who defeated the grave!

Remember the Wizard of Oz? Dorothy followed the Yellow Brick Road only to discover that the Wizard was a wimp, all smoke and mirrors. Is that the kind of God we need ?No. We need One who can place a hundred million stars in our galaxy and a hundred billion galaxies in our universe; a God who, while so mind-numbingly mighty, can come and touch us with the gentleness of a mothers hand.We need both a Lord and a Shepherd. Both strength & tenderness – and that is what we have.