To people who had just thrown a healed man out of the synagogue, Jesus describes a different kind of leadership: the good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. I know my sheep and my sheep know me.

David, meanwhile, is living the psalm he will one day write, hunted through wildernesses, gathering the distressed and indebted into a flock. Listen for the Shepherd's voice today. You know it better than you think.

Adullam's cave collected exactly the crowd a good shepherd attracts: the distressed, the indebted, the discontented, and under David they became a family and, eventually, mighty men. Meanwhile the official king was slaughtering priests. Titles do not make shepherds; laid-down lives do, which is why Jesus defined the role by a cross.

I know My sheep and My sheep know Me is the day's resting place. You are not managed by a hired hand who bolts at wolves; you are known by name, led by voice, and covered by a life laid down on purpose. Spend some quiet today just listening, His voice tends to sound like Scripture remembered at the right moment.