Excellent devotional, Blackstone.

It's good to reach the stage where we can go from needing to feeding.

"Feed my sheep."

Here's a bit of fair use from an online source, a good comparison with your devotional (I tried to correct the Greek; let's see how it comes out):

"When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I love you." He said to him, "Feed my lambs."

In these next three verses Jesus commissions Peter to do three things – feed my lambs, tend my sheep, and feed my sheep. Now they may seem very similar. In fact the translators of the King James Version thought they were so close in meaning that they translated all three phrases similarly. But there are four different Greek words used for these six English words, and I think this indicates a threefold ministry which we will examine.

The Greek word used here in verse 15 for lambs is ἀρνία (arnia) which means little lambs. Jesus is about to give Peter, and us, a three-fold commission. Here is his first instruction – feed my lambs. Every church has little lambs. There are young children and there are new believers – both are lambs.

We have young children that need to be ministered to. We need to care for these young lives as much as we do the adults. They are just as important in God’s sight as any adult that comes through these doors.

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The rest is at the link.



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