HOW think ye? If a man have a 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, 18:12.
This speaks to us of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Good Shepherd, who is seeking lost lambs and sheep (children and grown men and women), and when 1He finds one, He rejoices and carries it home.
The above Scripture had been read several times 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,
Will you not, my dear friends, give Him the joy of saying of you,
“I have found My sheep which was lost”?
ML 09/26/1937