The Good Shepherd

Here is my attempt at a hymn...

The Good Shepherd

The good shepherd became the lamb
To perfectly lead His sheep
To succor them and understand
How best to tend and watchkeep

He came without spot
As God's own blessed son
And selflessly He sought
His Father's will to be done

He bore the sins of all mankind
Every sorrow, every pain
The trials of death and hell combined
He received our stripes and was slain

His blood...that we might drink
His flesh... that we might sup
He went beneath all things
So He might then lift us up

Today He calls us all by name
We, His sheep, can know His voice
To repent oft and be freed of blame
His pure light governs every choice

He tends His lost sheep
Who have all gone astray
His love does never sleep
He's Light, and Life...the Way

Towards a brighter day

Alma 5:37 O ye workers of iniquity; ye that are puffed up in the vain things of the world, ye that have professed to have known the ways of righteousness nevertheless have gone astray, as sheep having no shepherd, notwithstanding a shepherd hath called after you and is still calling after you, but ye will not hearken unto his voice!

 38 Behold, I say unto you, that the good shepherd doth call you; yea, and in his own name he doth call you, which is the name of Christ; and if ye will not hearken unto the voice of the good shepherd, to the name by which ye are called, behold, ye are not the sheep of the good shepherd.

I had High on the Mountain Top in my head as I wrote it...