The Shepherd's Hook

Based on 1 Peter 2:25

Like a sheep I'd gone astray,

Wandered off and lost my way,

Darkness overtook me fast,

I was sure that day was my last.

So alone, afraid and cold,

Where I was i couldn't have told,

I was lost in sin and tightly bound,

Until my freedom in Him I found.

I heard His voice and I knew,

The way of the Shepherd was true,

But like a fool again I wandered away,

To all the emptiness replay.

I felt so far from my Shepherd,

I could no longer hear His voice,

But my call for help he heard,

When I made this choice,

A choice to follow Him alone,

No longer to wander and roam,

I remember this choice when I look,

At the faithful Shepherds Hook.

Author's Note

This poem is written about an event that happened recently in my life when I felt far from God because I kept falling into temptations again and again.
ONe night I was reading my bible at work when no one was in the pool, I came across 1 Peter 2:25 "For you were straying like sheep, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls." After I finished the book of 1 Peter I was praying and crying out to God saying I need to feel close to you again God I need the feel again. While I was praying this I looked in the deep end of the pool and saw a diving ring floating in the deep end (yeah I know its an oxymoron but I just tells it like I sees it) I grabbed a tool to fish it out. when I did I looked at the tool and thought of what it was called. A shepherds hook. I started to laugh and cry at the same time because I knew that He had heard me and answered my prayer. That He like a Shepherd, brought me back to Him.

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