getting God Pt. 2 - when sheep follow the world

'"If you were blind, you wouldn't be guilty." Jesus replied, "But you remain guilty because you claim to see." John 9:41

'"A hired hand will run when he sees a wolf coming. He will abandon the sheep because they don't belong to him and he isn't their shepherd. And so the wolf attacks them and scatters the flock. The hired hand runs away because he's working only for the money and doesn't really care about the sheep."' John 10:13

The world does not care about us. The world is flawed, possessed by sin and Godlessness, but it is not without it's own God's. It has it's drugs, money, sex and anything else that someone could devote their entire life to, just to come to the realization that in the end, it will abandon it's followers because we do not belong to this world, we belong to Jesus Christ. But if the world is not our shepherd, then why do we follow?

"After he has gathered his own flock, he walks ahead of them, and they follow him because they know his voice. They won't follow a stranger; they will run from him because they don't know his voice."John 10:4

Who's voice are we listening to? We are easily tricked into believing that the world is our shepherd because it knows how to get to us, get in us because it is ruled by sin, and sin knows how to imitate God.

"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled on the world was convincing us he didn't exist."
- Keyser Soze as Verbal Kent as Kevin Spacey as Christopher McQuarrie as Charles Baudelaire

But there is hope.

'"All who came before me were thieves and robbers. But the true sheep did not listen to them."'John 10:8

If we know the voice of our shepherd, then we will not be tricked by thieves, and robbers. Because we will know who's really trying to lead us, and know when to run away. We have to be true followers of Christ, sheep that follow their true creater and shepherd, not the world.