The Good Shepherd isn’t asking to do things, we don’t have to try and find him, he comes to us. We don’t have to atone for our sin, he does that for us. We don’t have to clean our act up, he does that by declaring we are a new creation. We simply allow the shepherd to lead us. We listen to his voice and follow him.
https://www.portstewartpresbyterian.org/sermons/covenant-god-pursues/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=213Ebx-YuhQ&t=5s