What Sheep Taught Me About Resting in Christ

He is our Good Shepherd!

There was a season when I thought exhaustion was just part of being faithful.

I stayed busy.
I stayed productive.
I kept moving from one responsibility to the next without slowing down long enough to notice how restless I had become internally.

On the outside, life looked fine.

But underneath it, my soul felt constantly unsettled.

I was reading Scripture, praying, and showing up for what needed to be done.

And still, there was this quiet weariness that never seemed to fully leave.

One of the things that began changing my perspective during that season was learning more about sheep and the way they function under the care of a shepherd.

Sheep do not rest when they feel unsafe.

They do not lie down when they are anxious, fearful, or constantly agitated.

They rest when they trust the shepherd caring for them.

That detail stayed with me.

Because I started realizing how often I was living spiritually tense, constantly carrying things God never intended me to carry alone.

Always mentally bracing for the next problem.
Always trying to hold everything together internally.

But Psalm 23 paints a completely different picture.

• A Shepherd who leads.

• A Shepherd who provides.

• A Shepherd who restores.

Not a Shepherd who drives His sheep into exhaustion.

That realization exposed how much of my “strength” had actually been self-reliance disguised as responsibility.

I thought peace would come once circumstances changed.

Once things had settled down.
Once life became less overwhelming.

But peace started growing when I began learning how to rest under Christ’s care instead of constantly striving to control everything around me.

There’s a kind of rest that only comes from trusting the Shepherd more than the storm around you.

I unpack more about what it means for Christ to truly be our Shepherd — and why that changes the way we walk through difficult seasons — here:

https://rosilindjukic.com/christ-as-our-shepherd/