All We Like Sheep

With the Shepherd

This verse does not single out a particularly wayward few. It says all we like sheep, an honest, universal confession before it becomes a promise. Every sheep in this picture has wandered, turned to his own way, not merely a rebellious minority while the rest stayed obediently in the fold. This is the honest starting point scripture insists on.

But the verse does not end at the confession. It moves immediately to what was done about it: the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. The wandering of the whole flock, every sheep’s own turned way, was placed on one specific shepherd, who bore the weight of all that scattering himself, at the cross.

This means your own wandering, whatever specific way you have turned toward, is not a disqualifying exception to the flock’s story. It is the flock’s story. Every sheep has this same account, and every sheep’s account was addressed the same way, not through the sheep’s own effort to find the way back, but through what was laid on the shepherd.

If today carries the weight of your own wandering, do not treat it as uniquely disqualifying. Bring it honestly to the shepherd who already bore it, the same iniquity, laid on him, for every sheep who has ever turned to their own way, including you.