July 8, 2021

Thursday

One Lost Sheep

John 10: 27-29

How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?”

Matthew 18:12

It’s called “slippage” in industry: Grain falls off trucks, manufactured parts don’t measure up, machines don’t run at peak efficiency, oil leaks out of car engines, and so on. In other words, there are no perfectly efficient systems on earth. Something, somewhere, is always falling through the cracks.

But slippage never occurs in salvation. Jesus used the familiar example of a flock of one hundred sheep. When the shepherd brought his sheep into the sheepfold for protection at night, he would count them one by one. If he counted only 99, what would the shepherd do, Jesus asked. One sheep of a hundred is only a one percent loss, it could be argued. Perhaps just the cost of doing business. But not to Jesus. A good shepherd would go into the mountains and find his missing sheep and bring him safely home. Not even one sheep will ever be lost (John 10:27-29).

If you belong to Jesus Christ by faith, you are one of His sheep. You can never be lost; He will seek you and find you to bring you safely back to the fold.

A point to ponder…

Thou didst seek us when we sought Thee not; didst seek us indeed that we might seek Thee. 
Augustine

Read the Bible through in a year

Psalm 119: 89-176

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