Divine Love is the Shepherd

Ruth C. Price

Christ Jesus loved little children. He also loved to tell stories to children and grown-ups. His stories are called parables.

Once he told about a shepherd who had a hundred sheep.^{ See Matt. 18:12–14; Luke 15:4–7.} A hundred sheep can be a lot of animals to watch over, and every day the shepherd counted his sheep, to be sure they were all there. Every day he counted them until he came to a hundred.

One day when counting, the shepherd got as far as ninety-nine, and found the hundredth was not there. One sheep was missing from the fold! Somewhere it had wandered away from the rest of the sheep and got lost.

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