Oh, so that's how....
We hear a lot of voices today - each representing some "cause" mankind is touting at the moment. Some are reasonable and seem to catch our attention simply because what they present seems logical and straight-forward. Other voices are not as forth-coming in their motives - they simply manipulate the crowds with their message until they have them to the place we might call "biting on the bait". Our mailboxes are inundated with lots of requests for this or that, one right after another. When we hear a voice calling, do we recognize the source of that 'voice'? Jesus was most concerned with this when he gave his disciples this instruction: Let me set this before you as plainly as I can. If a person climbs over or through the fence of a sheep pen instead of going through the gate, you know he's up to no good—a sheep rustler! The shepherd walks right up to the gate. The gatekeeper opens the gate to him and the sheep recognize his voice. He calls his own