Looking For You

In the Book of Luke, Jesus told a story about a shepherd with a hundred sheep who noticed one was missing. He left the ninety-nine out in the country and went after the one that had wandered away, and he kept searching until he found it. When he did, he didn't scold it all the way home. Instead he lifted it onto his shoulders and carried it back rejoicing, then called his friends together to celebrate. God pursues people the same way, especially if they are lost. He is not indifferent because you walked or even ran away from Him. So, if you have ever felt separated from the flock, distant from God, forgotten, or too far gone to matter to Him — this story says otherwise. If you are lost, no matter how you got there, God will find you where you are and will take you back with arms open wide. You are the one He is looking for.

Luke 15:4-5 — "What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it? And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing."