"What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine and go to the mountains to seek the one that is straying?" (Matthew 18:12)
Luke's version says, "the one who was lost." There are so many people today who feel like, "the one who was lost," and nobody cares, no one has left anything to find them. They feel that only, "the ninety-nine," are of any importance to God.
Jesus, "The Good Shepherd," will do anything, has done everything to make sure that the, "one of them [who] goes astray," is not lost, but found. Our Lord Jesus Christ always, "go[es] to the mountains to seek the one that is straying." He did that for you and me, as the Christmas Carol says, "when we were gone astray." There is absolutely no reason for you and me to feel like, "the one who was lost," and no one caring, no one looking for us.
Tomorrow is Good Friday. It is "Good" because on that Day so long ago our Lord Jesus Christ went into the "rocks" and "crags" of pain and suffering to "rescue the perishing," or, "the one who was lost." Maybe we could say that the history of man is one of "lost and found." We were lost; Jesus found.
Father, in Jesus' Name, I am so thankful that even when I seemed to not care that I be found, You still came looking for me. Amen.
When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"
Hebrews 12:2
Hebrews 12:2
