Don’t allow Satan to steal the joy you have in your salvation because that very joy is your strength in Christ. JESUS came to give you eternal, abundant life and with Him your burdens here on earth are lightened because you are never left alone and without hope.
Jesus, the shepherd, gives spiritual life and access to spiritual food.
The thieves and robbers were the Pharisees. The thieves take life; the shepherd gives it. Abundant life includes salvation, nourishment, healing, and much more. Life here refers to eternal life, God’s life. It speaks not only of endlessness, but of quality of life. With Christ, life on earth can reach much higher quality, and then in heaven it will be complete and perfect.
The NKJV Study Bible.
John 10:7–10 (NKJV)
7 Then Jesus said to them again, “Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. 8 All who ever came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. 9 I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. 10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
John 14:6 (NKJV)
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
Ephesians 2:18 (NKJV)
18 For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.
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