Jesus had a little lamb...

 Greetings to  you all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,

     Matthew 18:13-14 says, “ And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray.  Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.”

     How much am I worth?  I remember in chemistry class in 1957 that I was t old my body cont ained about $1.87 worth of chemicals.  I think it is over five dollars now.  I was a music teacher during the VietNam war for nine years at the Navy School of Music.I taught bassoon, clrinet, saxophone and flute.  I am now sitting in a power chair that retqails for over seven thousand dollars.  My nurse informed me that the new bandage application is one hundred dollars a sheet.  The previous one was also about one hundred dollars a sheet and they went me nine sheets with 3 refills on the prescription.  I wasn’t the best sailor in the world bud just simply did what I was ordered to do and did it with a cheerful attitude.  AI didn’t have a lot of medals, only three, one of which is good conduct with one star on it for over eight years of being good.  I am 84 years old and the Veteran’s hospital is treting me like I was someone important.  Everyone at the hospital always says, “Thank you for your service.”  I am overwhelmed.:

     I may not be worth much here on earth, or at least I don’t think I am worth much, the Scriptures take a different approach.  The above narrative describes a Shepherd that  has a hundred sheep and one of them goes missing.  What does he do?  In some churches, if one member goes missing, they might say, “Oh, I still have 99 and maybe that other one is just wandering in the woods and he will come back sooner or later.  The Chief Shepherd never says that but goes out and searches for that one lost sheep even though he still has ninety-nine back in the flock.  Every lamb is important and every human being is even more important to God.  He is not willing that any one of them should perish and so is pleading time and time again t o each and everyone to be saved before it is too late.  Of all the animals in creation, God chose  to compare us to sheep.  We are not lions, or tigers, or panthers, or elephants.  No, we are compared to sheep and if you are a shepherd, you know why.  Sheep get cast down, they can’t fight, they are not aggressive, they have to be lead to a good pasture, they have to have their head anointed with oil to keep flies from burrowing in.  So how much are we worth? While our present body is worth but a few bucks in monetary standards, our souls are worth a lot more.  They are priceless and as Ecclesiastes twelve says, at death it goes back to God which gave it in the first place.  You are priceless so praise God today because you are valuable to Him.