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>Below is a good reason that we don't mind the restraints of standards that
>keep us well within the boundaries of God's grace. Righteousness is something
>that we could never achieve on our own, but something that God imputes to
>those who through faith present their bodies and lives to God as a living
>sacrifice.  Righteousness is simply right standing with God, something that
>only the blood of Jesus can accomplish.  Pastor Fitzgerel
>
>Bro. Mark McKinney
><< I own a marvelous little book written nearly a quarter of a century ago by
>a former shepherd, Philip Keller. He titled the book A Shepherd Looks at Psalm
>Twenty-Three, He tells about his experience as a shepherd in east Africa. The
>land adjacent to his was rented out to a tenant shepherd who didn't take very
>good care of his sheep: his land was overgrazed, eaten down to the ground; the
>sheep were thin, diseased by parasites, and attacked by wild animals. Keller
>especially remembered how the neighbor's sheep would line up at the fence and
>blankly stare in the direction of his green grass and his healthy sheep,
>almost as if they yearned to be delivered from their abusive shepherd. They
>longed to come to the other side of the fence and belong to him. 
>    Christians understand that the identity of the shepherd is everything. It
>is wonderful to be able to say, "The Lord is my shepherd." 
>  >>
>
>Pastor Fitzgerel
>


Excellent thought Bro. and made all the more beaautiful because I have heard
your message on Christ Imputing His Righteousness to us. Bravo.

Jeff Wescott