This song is inspired by a Sermon Gem from Charles Haddon Spurgeon. The Lambs and Their Shepherd. Sermon Number Five Forty. Spurgeon Gems dot org. Go there to find Gems galore! Now listen to the Word. REJOICE IN THE GOOD SHEPHERD. “He shall gather the lambs with His arm, and carry them in His bosom.” Who is He of whom such gracious words are spoken? Who is He who cares so tenderly for lambs? Listen! These are the words of Isaiah— “Behold, the Lord God will come with strong hands, and His arm shall rule for Him: behold, His reward is with Him, and His work before Him. He shall feed His flock like a shepherd.” So, then, it is the Lord Jehovah who comes forward to bless His people in this fashion! What condescension is here! The Lord God, the Eternal and Infinite, acts the part of a Shepherd! But let us read on. The words which follow the text may well astound you,when you see how our great God stoops from His loftiness to carry lambs in His bosom. “Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? Who has directed the Spirit of the Lord, or being His counselor has taught Him? Behold, the nations are as a drop in a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, He takes up the isles as a very little thing.” And yet this same God who does all these things gathers lambs in His arms, and carries them in His bosom! I am sure we are not sufficiently sensible of the infinite love of God in stooping to consider us. Alas, that such condescension should be so unregarded! Remember, I pray you, that Infinite power engages to protect you, that inimitable affection sets itself on you, that wisdom which cannot err watches for your good, and that who never can be turned aside pledges to bless you! Why, that God should provide for such creatures as we are is some condescension; that He should think of them with a Father’s heart is marvelous! “What is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You visit him?” That He should carry that man, no, the weakest of such men, the lambs among this flock— That He should carry them in His arms! What shall I say to this? I will be silent on a theme which needs a more eloquent tongue than mine. Blessed be the name of such a gracious God. Brothers and sisters, rejoice in this tender Shepherd! Be confident, be grateful, be joyful, be thankful, be of good cheer always. For He it is who carries you is Jesus Christ!
