Monday, December 26, 2005

A must-read

Tim Bayly has up a wonderful reminder of what the parable of the sheep and the goats was all about. Now that Christmas Day is past and the Salvation Army Santas aren't ringing bells outside Wal-Mart anymore, it's more important than ever that we remember our duty as sheep.

Sheep are useless if all they do is bleat. They have to give up their wool (or even be served up with mint sauce) before they're worth even the grass they consume. Likewise, our Shepherd isn't taking care of us just so we can stand around munching grass and banging our gums about things that won't matter past this earthly life anyway. He has a purpose for us, and it's not as noisemakers.

Drop whatever you're doing and go read it. Now. Really. And then take the message to heart next year. I aim to.

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