Supposing you are a rich man and you dropped some money while coming out of a building, would you go back to search for the money and retrieve it? If the amount dropped is substantial, some may go back to search and recover the money, but if the amount is negligible, quite likely it would be ignored. But if you are a poor person, any amount of money lost is a big deal, and quite likely a poor person would search and recover the money.
In
today's Gospel, we see a man who chose to go after that one sheep that
was lost, even though he had another ninety-nine. For some of us, losing
one sheep may not have been a big deal; but for that man, each sheep
was extremely precious and losing even one could be disastrous to the man's livelihood, and so he had no qualms about searching for that
lost sheep till it was found. God is very much like that man. The Gospel
tells us that "it is never the will of your Father in heaven that one
of these little ones should be lost." Even if we have done a lot of bad
or nasty things, God is always looking for us and beckoning us to come
home with Him. Are we going to stubbornly choose
to remain lost? Or are we willing to return to the Lord's ways, and let Him be our providence and guide?
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