4th Sunday of Easter 2024

If you asked people if they had to be some kind of animal, what do you suppose they would answer? What would you choose? I can imagine someone might choose something majestic like an eagle, or fierce like a tiger, or mighty like a lion, or fast like a cheetah, or perhaps something even playful like a dog. But would anyone choose to identify as a sheep! In spite of cuddly and fluffy childhood pictures, most of us know that sheep are rather pathetic animals. And yet that is what we are consistently compared to in Scripture.