ONE day a party of young folks set off for a walk in the country. As they strolled through the fields they saw all by itself a little lamb bleating piteously.
“Poor little lamb, it must have wandered from its mother,” one of them said.
“Where can it have come from?”
There was no doubt that the lamb was lost and did not know how to get home again.
At the other side of the field was a fold, and inside this enclosure were lots of sheep and lambs.
“I expect it has escaped from this fold,” said one of the party.
“Let’s lift it in again.” So they picked up the lost lamb and put it into the fold, hoping to see it happy again. But it didn’t want to go there, and the other sheep would not let it in. They did not know the stray lamb. So the kind-hearted girl took it out again, and they set off to try to find the mother sheep.
As it happened the farmer came along, and when he heard the story and saw the lamb, he knew at once where it had come from. He picked up the wanderer and strode across the field, and before very long he had restored it to its mother.
When I heard this story, I thought of some other stray sheep and lambs, who are lost and cannot find their way home. Do you know whom I mean?
Yes, unless you have been found by the Good Shepherd, then you are lost. Other people may try to help you by getting you to join a church, or you may turn over a new leaf, or become religious, but that won’t save you. None but the Lord Jesus can meet your need. He says,
Just think of it! He died to save you. Won’t you trust Him and thank Him?
Then you will know what it is to be safe forever.