{"id":3716,"date":"2008-12-09T23:10:08","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T04:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/ch-spurgeon\/john-1027"},"modified":"2008-12-09T23:10:08","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T04:10:08","slug":"john-1027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2008\/12\/09\/john-1027\/","title":{"rendered":"John 10:27"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“And they follow me.” 
              — John 10:27 <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We should follow our Lord as unhesitatingly as sheep follow their
shepherd, for he has a right to lead us wherever he pleases. We are not
our own, we are bought with a price-let us recognize the rights of the
redeeming blood. The soldier follows his captain, the servant obeys his
master, much more must we follow our Redeemer, to whom we are a
purchased possession. We are not true to our profession of being
Christians, if we question the bidding of our Leader and Commander.
Submission is our duty, cavilling is our folly. Often might our Lord
say to us as to Peter, “What is that to thee? Follow thou me.” Wherever
Jesus may lead us, he goes before us. If we know not where we go, we
know with whom we go. With such a companion, who will dread the perils
of the road? The journey may be long, but his everlasting arms will
carry us to the end. The presence of Jesus is the assurance of eternal
salvation, because he lives, we shall live also. We should follow
Christ in simplicity and faith, because the paths in which he leads us
all end in glory and immortality. It is true they may not be smooth
paths-they may be covered with sharp flinty trials, but they lead to
the “city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.” “All
the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his
covenant.” Let us put full trust in our Leader, since we know that,
come prosperity or adversity, sickness or health, popularity or
contempt, his purpose shall be worked out, and that purpose shall be
pure, unmingled good to every heir of mercy. We shall find it sweet to
go up the bleak side of the hill with Christ; and when rain and snow
blow into our faces, his dear love will make us far more blest than
those who sit at home and warm their hands at the world’s fire. To the
top of Amana, to the dens of lions, or to the hills of leopards, we
will follow our Beloved. Precious Jesus, draw us, and we will run after
thee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“And they follow me.”                — John 10:27 We should follow our Lord as unhesitatingly as sheep follow theirshepherd, for he has a right to lead us wherever he pleases. We are notour own, we are bought with a price-let us recognize the rights of theredeeming blood. The soldier follows his captain, the servant obeys…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}