The love of the heavenly Father is unmeasurable. He values one of us as much as ninety-nine of us. One percent equals 99 percent. We are considered as sheep in YAHSHUA’S teachings, as He considers Himself as our shepherd. The lost sheep of the parable of Matthews 18:12-14 gives us an example of how He cares for all of us, not wanting any of us to be lost. The Prophet Isaiah describes our spiritual condition as “like sheep.” Yes, like sheep, we have gone stray; we have turned everyone to his own way. (Isaiah 53:6a). YAHSHUA, looking at the crowd, perceived them as sheep without a shepherd. A picture of the helpless crowds touched the heart of our Shepherd, YAHSHUA. When He saw them, He had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless like sheep without a shepherd (Matt. 9:36). Our Lord compared humans to sheep, because we like sheep, are prone to wander away from the truth. We are independent, stubborn, rebellious, we refuse to follow our Shepherd’s directions. Always getting lost for rejecting His way. However, the love of our Shepherd is like a staff, which He uses to bring us back to Him. “My sheep hear my voice; I give them eternal life.” That’s what life is all about in relationship with the Lord as our Shepherd. His coming to this world to be our Savior was His priority. He said, I am the good Shepherd and I know My sheep (John 10:14). That translates a relationship between Him and His sheep. “He knows them and they know His voice.” It is our Shepherd’s ultimate desire that we, His sheep, walk close to Him, so that we will not stray from the way through all kinds of doctrines and religions, which will lead us to Satan’s hard and rough, dark and gloomy territory. Our Shepherd never loses focus of His sheep. When one gets lost, He goes after it, to save and restore to His fold.
Light from the Word 