Nashville, Tennessee, United States - The Upper Room Daily Devotional "You Know My Name" Monday, 28 April 2014 - Read John 10:1-5

Nashville, Tennessee, United States - The Upper Room Daily Devotional "You Know My Name" Monday, 28 April 2014 - Read John 10:1 “Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. 2 But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out. 4 Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. 5 They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don’t know the voice of strangers.”
Neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
--Romans 8:38-39 (NRSV)
I was at the nursing home visiting my mother when an elderly man stopped to talk to me. He told me that he was one of nine children and that in the last years of his father’s life, his father had become blind. “You know,” said the man, “even though he was blind, he knew each of us children by our voices.” Blindness was not an obstacle to knowing and loving his children. In the same way, Jesus told us, “I know my own and my own know me” (John 10:14). And in Romans 8, Paul reminds us that nothing can prevent us from having a relationship with Jesus Christ if we accept and get to know him. Blindness could not prevent the elderly man’s father from knowing him. How good it is to know that no obstacle can prevent us from having a relationship with our heavenly Father!
The Author: James R. Hayes (Tennessee, USA)
Thought for the Day: Nothing can interfere with God’s love for us.
Prayer: Thank you, dear Lord, for knowing us and for wanting to have a relationship with us. We are grateful that no obstacle can get in the way of your love. Amen.
Prayer focus: Those who are blind (Visit devotional.Upperroom.Org/blog for more content.)
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