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Jesus Is Calling
An increasing number of people are being forced to question whether there is
more to life than just their daily existence. There are many different events
which lead them to this point, sometimes it's the stark feeling of insecurity
that comes from redundancy. Sometimes it's a relationship that's broken down.
Sometimes it's ill health. Whatever the cause, the effect is the same: a
feeling of life not being worthwhile and what's worse, the depressing feeling
that there's no-one who cares how you feel.
It's true of course that this feeling is not unique to the time that we live in.
The experiences which would have led to this feeling in the past may have been
different, but the pain felt was just as intense. People felt this pain 2000
years ago when the Lord Jesus Christ went to towns and villages to tell the
Jewish people that God cared for them. Jesus made the point of explaining that
God was particularly concerned about those people who had drifted away from Him.
Jesus made his point by telling his listeners a story. He used the illustration
of someone who owned 100 sheep. He asked his listeners what they thought the
owner would do if he lost one sheep. They knew the answer was that he would go
and look for it. Jesus added that the owner would be happier about the one
sheep that had been found than all the others in the flock. This was how God
felt about people who drifted away, but came back, and it was a message of hope
to those who heard Jesus' words.
God still feels this way today, the Bible tells us:
"God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever
believes in
Him should not perish but have everlasting life" (John chapter 3 verse 16 -
N.K.J.V.)
Jesus still makes the call, through the pages of the Bible, to those who will
listen, and he offers the same message of hope and assurance that there is
someone who cares. Have you heard his call?
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