Sheep or Goat?

Is that a sheep or goat?  How do you tell?  Goats got horns, right?  Well, what about those big-horn sheep - they're not goats.   Okay, it's one of those "you know one when you see one" things.  And Lucky me, getting brought up on a farm blessed me with a fair eye for livestock.  I grant you, there's not much stead for this here in 21st Century America.  Electronics is where it's at.

Way back, when Jesus told folks that come judgement day, He was going to gather us all up and seperate us out - sheep from goats, the herdsman out there knew exactly what He was talking about.  See, seperating livestock's a big part of animal husbandry.  Seems like you're always in there cutting out the ones for slaughter.  Tough work for anybody who loves his animals, but  it has to be done.  The poor things you once petted frantically run ever which away trying to get away.  Almost like they know what's coming.

Matthew 25:31-47 gives a plain account of whats going to happen after we get divided up.  One bunch will inherit the Great Kingdom and the other will get pitched in to the eternal fire.  Reckon, like goats, we'll know what's coming that day too, and which bunch we want in.

That brings us to what we're doing here.  This blog will try to explore todays world using Christ's teachings to Light the way, maybe add to it the perspective of simple country life, and hope it will help us to be unmistakably a sheep, come judgement day.

God had graced me with more than a half century of life in the great state of Texas  when He blessed me with a beautiful daughter, my only child.  A unique situation, I know.  But, like grandfather in the old classic, Heidi, she spurrs a new dogged determination in me to make things better for her around here.  And I know that our Lord's coming back someday.  So, what say we start cleaning up?

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