l think many of us remember the parable of the lost sheep as told in Scripture but how many of us would really understand it’s meaning? It is a nice story in which the shepherd has one hundred sheep but one goes astray and gets lost. Leaving the other ninety-nine sheep the shepherd goes in search of that lost one. Why was the sheep lost? What made it lost? From what was the sheep lost? The story relates to those among us who have strayed away from the rest but it is specifically in relation to those who walk away from God and do their own thing. Whether you believe in God or not the fact remains that we have lost sheep among us. Those who go against society are lost sheep too, you only have to watch the news on television, listen to the radio or read the newspapers to know that is true. We are constantly bombarded with the evil doings of those who have fallen by the wayside. No amount of legislation or social guidance will alter that fact. As a society we repeatedly try to make people behave and when they don’t we resign ourselves to having to live with it. The real cause is a falling away from God but not everyone will go along with that idea. The result is nothing is going to change. History proves that we don’t learn by our mistakes and it proves that we think we can manage all by ourselves. We cannot. We need to find the lost sheep among us and put them on the straight and narrow way. That way is not the path most of us are on now for it has proven to go nowhere and achieves nothing. Anyone who thinks otherwise is under an illusion. There is only one way and that is the way of God. Don’t be a lost sheep. You’ll be better for it.
Shirley Anne
