Around 8 years old I went to Washington DC with my family and friends. We often traveled and camped with a group which I was the only girl in four family's. Most of them were my age but I didn't always get included. So, it was no surprise when I looked up, at the Washington Monument, that I was all alone. I could not find our group anywhere and I was scared. Finally I saw them in the distance leaving. I ran to them crying and they didn't know I had been lost.
Our Heavenly Father will never not know where we are, physically or spiritually. If we are lost He knows it and He is always trying to get us back. He is a seeking shepherd! Luke 15: 4-7, "Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.’ I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent."
God actively seeks and cares for the lost. “The only safe place for a sheep is by the side of his shepherd, because the devil does not fear sheep; he just fears the Shepherd, that is all.”
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