OCTOBER 6 "SHEEP THAT STRAY..."
Dr. Andrew Bonar told me how, in the Highlands of
Scotland, a sheep would often wander off into the rocks and get into places
that they couldn't get out of. The grass on these mountains is very sweet and
the sheep like it, and they will jump down ten or twelve feet, and then they
can't jump back again, and the shepherd hears them bleating in distress. They
may be there for days, until they have eaten all the grass. The shepherd will
wait until they are so faint they cannot stand, and then they will put a rope
around him, and he will go over and pull that sheep up out of the jaws of
death. "Why don't they go down there when the sheep first gets
there?" I asked. "Ah!" He said, "they are so very foolish
they would dash right over the precipice and be killed if they did!" And
that is the way with men; they won't go back to God till they have no friends
and have lost everything. If you are a wanderer I tell you that the Good
Shepherd will bring you back the moment you have given up trying to save
yourself and are willing to let Him save you His own way.
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