The hired hand, since he is not the shepherd and doesynt own the sheep, leaves them and runs away when he sees a wolf coming. 

The wolf then snatches and scatters them. 

This happens because he is a hired hand and doesn't care about the sheep.

John 10:12-13 CSB

Do you notice the actions of the wolf?

The wolf gets a hold on the sheep and scatters them.

We are made for community. Made for relationships. The wolf, the enemy, the anti-shepherd, scatters, isolates, makes us think we have to do this life on our own, in our own strength. 

The shepherd brings us together, gathers, holds us together. 

When there is joy and goodness and victories, celebrate together. When the weight of the world is bearing down, when hope is hard to see, we need one another more than ever, don't get isolated. That isolating is the work of the anti-shepherd. 

In Matt 18 and Luke 15 is the parable of the lost sheep. The one sheep who is separated, isolated from the rest. 

Jesus gathers and restores the lost to himself, and to community. The work of the Good Shepherd.

#wearealljustwalkingeachotherhome

#inthistogether