Inspiration for Trust and Faith in Jesus Christ

OUR Divine Shepherd followed after His 
lost sheep for three and thirty years, in a 
way so painful and so thorny that He 
spilled His heart's blood and left His life there. 

The poor sheep now follows Him through obe- 
dience to His commands, or through a desire 
(though at times but faint) to obey Him, calling 
upon Him and beseeching Him earnestly for 
help; is it possible that He should now refuse 
to turn upon it His life-giving look? Will He 
not give ear to it, and lay it upon His divine 
shoulders, rejoicing over it with all His friends 
and with the angels of Heaven? For if our 
Lord ceased not to search most diligently and 
lovingly for the blind and deaf sinner, the lost 
drachma of the Gospel, till He found it, how is 
it possible that He should abandon him who, as a 
lost sheep, cries and calls upon his Shepherd? 

Lorenzo Scupoli. 

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