John 10: 1-5
“Truly I tell you, anyone who doesn’t enter the sheep pen by the gate but climbs in some other way is a thief and a robber. 2 The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep.
3 The gatekeeper opens it for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by
name and leads them out. 4 When he has brought all his own outside, he goes ahead of them. The sheep follow him because they know his voice. 5 They will never follow a stranger;
instead they will run away from him, because they don’t know the voice of strangers.”
How many different voices do we hear each week? Family, friends, radio, television,
coworkers, social media, newspapers, online articles, magazines, strangers in the
grocery store, people at church, and the list goes on and on….
How many of those voices truly want what’s best for you?
How many truly want Godly things for you?
How do you discern the voice of Jesus from all the other voices you hear each week?
How do you discern truth from all the noise?
Outright lies are easy to spot usually, but lies that SOUND and FEEL true, those are the
ones that the enemy excels in using,
and those are the ones that lead us astray.
What’s a lie that sounded true that you believed? How did you discover it wasn’t true?
How do you plan to listen to God, and God alone at some point this week?
