May I transition from Thief/Robber/Wolf to Hireling and then to the Shepherd that the Lord has asked that I be!

Have I rid my heart of all desire to enter “not by the door” but climb up “some other way”(John 10: 1)? Have I eliminated my secret desires to scatter, steal from, or catch my fellowman (John 10: 10, 12)?

Preoccupation with the coming wolf and careful departure from sinners are characteristics of the hireling who “leaveth the sheep, and fleeth”(John 10: 12).

With Christ as my guide, I will enter “in by the door”(John 10: 2), calling his sheep “by name”, lead “them out”, go “before them”(John 10: 3-4) and bring them together into “one fold” under that One Shepherd (John 10: 16).