Jesus is our Shepherd and we are His Sheep.
If one of us is lost, He will leave all His sheep just to search for us.
It's not that He doesn't love His other safe sheeps, but He knows who needs Him to be brought back to the pen.
He sees everything, and He sees our heart.
If we have the right heart, if we know that we want Jesus to change something in our lives, in our situations, He sees it.
And He'll help us.
Sometimes we get lost. We lose focus on what's important.
Or sometimes, we're just so buried in our own problems that we fail to fix our eyes upon God.
Anger can be a barrier between our connection with God, grief and sadness can be barriers too. Guilt can be a barrier, so can pride.
That's why we have to check ourselves constantly, is our walk with God on the right track?
Many things that we experience, as we grow in our walk with God, requires us to take a leap of faith. A kind of faith that is on solid rock, that we can be sure that He is enough to catch us.
God won't forget us. If we stray, we're lost sheep. He's gonna go all out to get you back, He's gonna lead you back to the pen, where you're safe from wolves, boars.
Many times, there are things obstructing us from going to God. Maybe people, maybe situations, maybe accidents or maybe even temptations. It's like this gap between God and us.
We can't jump across that gap, and there's no rope.
But there's the Cross.
The Cross is large enough to cover the distance between the gap.
We can walk with confidence across the Cross, sure in it's sturdyness.
If we would just accept the fact of the Cross, that Jesus died for us, nailed to that Cross, that love beyond measure has been given to us, then the Cross would cover that gap.
But walking across it is another matter.
We might think it's all a joke, it's something fake, maybe we'd even feel that we don't deserve it.
But all of us don't deserve it at all. We have disappointed and broken God's heart on more than one occasion and He still loves us.
He knows everything, He knows that you're going to break His heart in the future but He died for you anyway.
So why hurt Him even more by going away from Him?
Run back to Him, so that He can work it through with You.
To help you overcome your problems with His love, with His power.
He's GOD, what can He not do?
What are you waiting for?
Run back and never look back.
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ken.