CHRIST JESUS, our Chief Shepherd!
“He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; He led him about, He instructed him, He kept him as the apple of His eye.” -DEUTERONOMY 32:10 [KJV] Christian! see here an emblem of yourself. Where did God find you? He found you in “a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness.” Yes, earth with all its loveliness and beauty is a desert place, until the sinner has been found by God. There is much, it is true, to attract the eye and to gratify the sense; but fair and lovely though it be, in a moral and spiritual view it is “ a desert land .” The soul can find in it no sustenance, and no refuge in this desert. In this “ waste howling wilderness ,” he is surrounded, on every side, by dangers; and exposed to countless perils. But, oh! it is a blessed thing to know, that God seeks out, and finds the wanderer, in the desert; and, when He has found him, “ He leads him ,” not always by a direct path, to the promised land, but by a circuitous route, and in the ...