Mahatma Gandhi once said, "To find God, you must have patience as a man who sits by the seaside and undertakes to empty the ocean, lifting up one drop of water with a straw." This is an impossible task and will kill my desire to be spiritual. I would say, "Why bother?" But God does the very opposite. God is like sweeping the universe with the broom of His redemptive grace until He finds the coin on which His image is stamped.
Luke 15:1-7
7 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.
I love Parables of Jesus during my Sunday school days. The lost sheep is one of my favorite. As little girl, the idea of an animal lost or left behind or injured was a pitiful sight. The good Shepherd came to the rescue to leave the 99 sheeps to look for 1 is very touching to me at that time. It set my Christian understanding that it is in fact God coming to look for sinners and not sinners seeking to know God.
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John 3:16-18The Message (MSG)
16-18 “This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn’t go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person’s failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to him.
James 4:8
8 Come near to God and he will come near to you
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