Christ’s reign in His Church is that of a shepherd-king. He has supremacy, but it is the superiority of a wise and tender shepherd over his needy and loving flock; He commands and receives obedience, but it is the willing obedience of the well-cared-for sheep, rendered joyfully to their beloved Shepherd, whose voice they know so well. He rules by the force of love and the energy of goodness.
~Charles Spurgeon~
Morning & Evening – (eBook. www.olivetreebible.com) Excerpted from the entry to be read in the morning of August 19th
