Growing with the Lord

7/23/29 Get your house in order The OT is a shadow of the new covenant God gave us. When King Hezekiah faced terminal illness, the prophet Isaiah delivered a stark command: “ Put your affairs in order , for you are about to die.” ( 2 Kings 20:1 ) This directive captures the essence of spiritual preparation—the urgent need to align one’s life with what matters most before mortality arrives. The parallel in 1 Peter 2:25 operates on a deeper level. Peter describes believers as those who “have now returned to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls.” Where Hezekiah was called to organize his earthly house , Peter’s audience had already experienced a more fundamental reordering : they had wandered from the flock and shepherd—from the church and Christ—but experienced conversion when they returned to the Shepherd. [1] The connection becomes clear through the shepherd metaphor. A shepherd feeds, protects and sustains his sheep, and Jesus as the Shepherd seeks for lost sheep and tends sick on...