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GOD PURSUES US IN LOVE

{¶} The prophet Jeremiah saw a flock of ruined sheep:

"My people have been lost (ruined) sheep; their shepherds have led them astray and caused them to roam on the mountains. They wandered over mountain and hill and forgot their own resting place . . . . but I will bring Israel back to his own pasture."
Jeremiah 50:6,19

{¶} We readily forget GOD, our "resting place", and wander away. Yet HE pursues us wherever we go, with no complaint of the darkness, the cold wind, the heavy burden, the steep hill, or the thorny path over which HE must pass to rescue one lost sheep.

HIS love does not count time, energy, suffering, or even life itself.

{¶} HIS pursuit is not reward for our goodness but the result of HIS decision to love.

HE is driven by love; not by our beauty.

HE is drawn to us when we have done nothing right and when we have done everything wrong.

{¶} JESUS said:

"What do you think? if a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders way, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go look for the one that wandered off?

And if he finds it, I tell you the truth, he is happier about the one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off.

In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones be lost.Matthew 12-14

LOST SHEEP ARE NOT DOOMED!

THEY ARE THE ONES HE CAME TO FIND!

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