The true dedicated shepherd

   A shepherd is commissioned by God to feed His sheep and to make sure of the sheep's spiritual and physical well-being, which God made a shepherd's major responsibility because it is the reason why He called and ordained him to serve. A shepherd takes a heavenly oath to serve and not to be served, to lead with an example and not to mislead his followers, and even lay down his life to accomplish his divine mandate.

   God is selective in choosing the persons to take care of His sheep because the spiritual and physical healthiness of His sheep is His ultimate concern. A person who knows what it takes to care, organize, cooperate, and build up with the same principle given by Him who called for leadership.  

      Also, God does not select a man and send him out without training because a kingdom shepherd should know he's not meant to eat sheep under his watch, but he has to serve and save the sheep going astray into the marvelous light of God. He's not just an ordinary person, but a spirit-filled man fully equipped and ordained for kingdom service, not a self-centered person who labors for self-benefit but a selfless missionary whose aim and sacrifice is to fulfill the kingdom goal.  

     God ordain a shepherd to:

    Remember that you are called to this office for the will of God to be accomplished through you, that is to maintain His principles and to lead by His principles, and for Him to use you for this assignment, you are to yield yourself completely to same principles to 

Raise and guide them in His path 

    God appoints a selfless shepherd who has a motherly capacity to show undying love and affection to His sheep. Thus, a responsible mother is known for her love and care for her child because she sees motherhood as a privilege and a rank given to her by God to produce a godly child for her generation. A shepherd is a mother, a nursing mother whose priority, priceless effort, and ambitious desire is to cater to his sheep's well-being and to meet God’s expectations for being called to serve. Luke 12:48b                                                         

Feed His sheep the undiluted food                                           

Jeremiah 3:16;23:4

     A shepherd is not only called to lead but also a chef to the sheep, and God is not careless in choosing anyhow chef to cook for his sheep only He alone has the right to provide the ingredients and decide the quantity the chef needs to cook the food and also when and how to dish out the food. And His making of a chef to partnership with requires a lot of training, and discipline in order not to danger the life of the sheep.

    Thus, no wonder the cause of spiritual and physical kwashiorkor in Christendom today is because of untrained shepherds who jumped into ministry with no agenda to serve but to eat the sheep they are meant to serve. Even the trained ones that are to enter the kitchen with the Lord to cook healthy food for the hungry souls left their apron for God in the kitchen and went after mammon, and not bothered nor cared about the health of the souls God gathered to feed under them. 

    Shepherds that have no sense of reasoning nor considerate of the heavy lost heaven are incurring as a result of their mischief and quest for material things. Of which the misconduct, indiscipline, and immoral behavior displayed in the church of Christ among so-called Christians is a result of the Poison cooked and served by a chef. (Jeremiah 50:6;Isaiah 56:11;Ezekiel 34:2,5,8,10;Zephaniah 2:6)

    God’s high calling to His appointed shepherd to feed His sheep the undulated word is a path the shepherd must first undergo:

-      Trainings 

   Any instrument that is to be used by God is properly equipped by Him to be a replicate of His glory. He does not just hire a degree holder to be His instrument of service but He trains His employees and qualifies them for His service. (Ezekiel 4:1-12)

   Ministerial calling is not a phone call or someone telling you, you have a calling but it is all about an encounter for submission, subjection, and willingness to serve. Nothing best describes the superiority of who called you if He did, then how it has effectively changed your life determines the personality that called for service.

   That encounter is the reason why you are called, and that is the same reason it is the purpose of the ministry. It is not a call you should answer by assumption because you can see an open vision or you can prophesy and cast off the devil, it is just something bigger than that. Also, a minister is ordained and sent by God to assume the office of leadership, when he might have undergone a series of training that made him fit to partake in God’s agenda for the world. 

       Look at what is happening in Christendom today, it is obvious that our so-called leaders are untrained men and women who know nothing about leadership and that is why the church has no watchman to watch over Christ's inheritance rather they subjected themselves to Satan, sold Christ-birth right in exchange of vain things. 

Become an example to them

 2Corinthians 3:2-3

      A shepherd is a written letter from God to the sheep because the sheep do not only learn from his sermon but also from his lifestyle, of which the sheep get inspired and eager to be disciplined and nurtured in the word of God when the shepherd is living by an example. Because if he is heavenly called to serve, the sheep under his watch will be heavenly conscience because for him to practice his teachings is like building a lifestyle for the sheep looking up to him. 

       The alter of God is not an acting studio for a minister of the gospel, nor a place of merchandise but a place where a minister becomes transparent and more realistic to defend his message on God’s alter through his lifestyle before his followers__ The misconduct and sinful activities in the Christendom is mostly from so-called leaders that are not leading the church with a good example rather they contribute to the misfortune and lawlessness in the church. 

Show them the pathway to follow

       The church is badly wounded, misled, and destroyed beyond recognition due to the leadership of a godless shepherd. God ordain a shepherd to guide His sheep and not to eat or push them into destruction. Tell the sheep the truth, guide them in the truth, punish and correct in truth. It is a call to serve and not to be served.