A Sheeps Life

Recently I was out on a holiday in the lake district with my friends. Driving along the mountains and along the lakes it makes you stop and think what would it take for someone to actually build it if they had to. Huge mountains, picture perfect lakes and green everywhere. Such calmness all around, all that you hear is the gentle breeze and the sound of birds chirping here and there. There is also one more thing that catches your attention, it's the sheep’s everywhere. You stand in front of a mountain and you see these sheep’s in such high places where I don’t think I can climb or walk. They are everywhere along the roads and after some thinking I asked my friend next to me " would someone want to live a sheep's life". Graze all day and sleep and no other worries in life.



The answer I got and the conversations that followed got me thinking. If you really watch these sheep’s you see a massive sense of contentment with what they are doing. They are content in living their life. They can graze even at the mountain top or along the waters. I am don’t think seeing them you think they have any worry at all. And going by that I am sure there will be lots of people who would want to life a sheep's life.

Also every time I saw the birds chirping and flying high up on the clouds I got reminded of the verse in Mat 6:26 "Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they? I have been challenged by this verse before but time and again it comes back as a challenge every time in my own humanness I tend to start to worry about the next day.

Being content is not an easy thing and trusting God will show our contentment level as to how much we rest in Him . Everyday there are things that steals us of our contentment and makes us uneasy in life. Every minute there are things that need our worry if I may put it, if our heavenly father feeds the birds faithfully won’t he not satisfy my needs too.