Other shepherds may have squashed our spiritual imagination into the flatness of feeling special to be in some shiny person’s orbit, but our real Good Shepherd doesn’t stand apart on stages. Our true Good Shepherd holds dirty feet in his God-hands and asks us to let him love us down to the dirt under our toenails. Faith comes in letting God lead us lower than we expect or wish to wash us where we most need. Faith is finding that God delights in loving every part of me. Unless we let God wash every part of us, we have no part with him. Unless we let Jesus be a servant, we cannot experience
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