Accept and believe the shepherd

                                                      THE GOOD SHEPHERD

John 10:11-16  I (Jesus) am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 
12  He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. 
13  He flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep. 
14  I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, 
15  just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep. 
16  And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.

1 Peter 2:21-25
  For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps. 
22  He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth. 
23  When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly. 
24  He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. 

25  For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.