A Faithful Shepherd - All The LORD is near Daily Devotionals for 2025

The LORD is near - Sunday, August 31, 2025
by Jacob Redekop, Brian Reynolds, John van Dijk, Eugene P. Vedder Jr

Details

A Faithful Shepherd

Now may the God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you complete in every good work to do His will, working in you what is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
Hebrews 13:20–21

A Faithful Shepherd
How full and appropriate is this lovely closing prayer of the Epistle to the Hebrews! For these troubled Hebrew believers, there was a God of peace. He had laid the firm foundation of peace in raising from among the dead this One whose heart was that of a faithful Shepherd, who is great also in the power of resurrection life. His resurrection was consistent with the preciousness of His death, and the value of the blood of the everlasting covenant was such that resurrection was the righteous result.

Here is eternal value, in contrast to all that was temporal in Judaism: the covenant is everlasting because the value of the blood is everlasting, and the blessed Shepherd lives in the power of an endless life. Wonderful fullness and perfection of blessing for His sheep! With such a provision, should not our hearts respond with real desire to be made perfect or complete in every good work to do His will?

The working out of this must be on the part of God. Our resources are all in Him, through Jesus Christ, and practical results in our lives must be the result of submission to the work of His hand. Then we shall see no credit for ourselves, but heartily ascribe to Him glory forever and ever: “Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name” (Heb. 13: 15).

L. M. Grant

We know Thee now as risen, the Firstborn from the dead;
We see Thee now ascended, the church's glorious Head.
In Thee by grace accepted, the heart and mind set free
To think of all Thy sorrow, and thus remember Thee.

G. W. Frazer

More From Our Daily Devotional Archives

The LORD is near
for Sunday, December 1, 2013
by Jacob Redekop, Brian Reynolds, John van Dijk, Eugene P. Vedder Jr

Now before the feast of the Passover...

Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that His hour had come that He should depart out of this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, loved them to the end
(John 13:1)

The opening verse of chapter 13 is introductory to the last discourses of our Lord. The...More

Open Heavens
for Thursday, December 5, 2013
by Pastor E.A Adeboye

UNCOVERING EVIL

The presence of the supernatural power of God in a church can take that church beyond limits.
It can also uproot the presence of evil in the midst of Gods children. In Acts 5, a couple were uprooted through this. If we are going to sanitise the church, we need the Holy Spirit. Just as we need Him to heal, save...More

And the angel of the LORD appeared unto the woman, and...

The LORD is near
for Friday, December 6, 2013
by Jacob Redekop, Brian Reynolds, John van Dijk, Eugene P. Vedder Jr

And the angel of the LORD appeared unto the woman, and...

And the angel of the LORD appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son. Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing: For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; ...More

The LORD is near
for Friday, December 27, 2013
by Jacob Redekop, Brian Reynolds, John van Dijk, Eugene P. Vedder Jr

THE NON-LYING GOD (2)

In the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before the ages of time, but has manifested in its own due season His word.
(Titus 1:2-3)

THE NON-LYING GOD (2)
I can lie. Titus could too, and so could the Cretans. But God can not lie. I can deceive. But...More