What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off? And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he is happier about that 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 should perish.

Jesus loves little children. And he pursues them and is always trying to find them and bring them back to the fold. He wants a relationship with them. He will search for just one lost one, and rescue it when it wanders.

In reality, we are all children of God. And God wants us to seek his righteousness, his loving heart, his gracious attitude. When we realize that we are not alone in this world and we understand that God wants to be with us, life becomes more meaningful with a purpose beyond ourselves.

Have you wandered away from God in the past or are you wandering today? I have wandered. So we all (or most of us) can relate to the one lost sheep. God loves us even in our wandering. In fact, even though we have turned away from him, he seeks us out! How powerful is his love!

He wants us to live a life of spiritual fullness. When we fall or wander, we have a choice: we can take the hand of the Good Shepherd and go back to God, or we can reject his help.

What will I choose when wandering? What will you choose?

“See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.” (‭‭1 John‬ ‭3‬:‭1‬)

Lord, thank you for your amazing love to seek out the one. The one has been me at times. You love us even though we sin and treat you poorly. Your love is relentless — it pursues us. Thank you for loving a broken and, at times, a confused man like me.