Ezekiel 34

I once cared for a sick and vulnerable lamb.

Ezekiel 34:21-22 provides a particularly poignant image of God the shepherd’s care for the “least of these”:

Because you pushed with flank and shoulder, and butted at all the weak animals with your horns until you scattered them far and wide, I will save my flock, and they shall no longer be ravaged.

Reading these verses reminds me of a day several years ago, when our family visited a local petting zoo in Atlanta.

God has put "all things under his feet." Shouldn't we be worried about such a portrayal of absolute power? 

Does our discomfort over God’s judgment come from the fear of taking sides? Or the fear of being found on the wrong one?

While Ezekiel’s shepherd is often on the move, any sheepherder will tell you that this is the exception rather than the rule.