Gone Astray

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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?” Matt. 18:1212How 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).
This is a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Good Shepherd, who is seeking lost lambs and sheep, (children, and grown men and women) and when He finds one, He. rejoices and carries it home.
Several times over the above Scripture had been read in a class of little ones, and then the teacher asked them,
“What made Him seek for that lost sheep?”
“Because He loved it,” answered a chorus of young voices.
“Because it was lost,” added another. As the teacher waited a moment or two for more answers, a little girl said sweetly,
“Because—because He knew it would never come back its own self.”
The children were right, were they not, dear young readers? And now let me ask you, Has He sought and found you? Have you allowed Him to find you?
Perhaps you do not yet know that you are lost. Sad state to be in! God’s Word says, “All we like sheep have gone astray.” Isa. 53:66All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. (Isaiah 53:6).
“THE SON OF MAN IS COME TO SEEK AND TO SAVE THAT WHICH WAS LOST.” LUKE 19:1010For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost. (Luke 19:10).
Will you not, my dear friends, give Him the joy of saying of you, “I have found My sheep which was lost”?
“The Shepherd sought His sheep,
The Father sought His child;
He followed me o’er vale and hill,
O’er desert waste and wild.
He found me nigh to death,
Famished, and faint, and lone;
He bound me with the chains of love,
He saved the wandering one.
No more a wandering sheep,
I love to be controlled;
I love the tender Shepherd’s voice,
I love the peaceful fold.
Nc more a wayward child,
I seek no more to roam;
I love my heavenly Father’s voice,
I love, I love His home.”
ML 06/23/1922