From a human perspective, it doesn't make sense. From the value of a market-oriented society, it doesn't make sense even more. The risk seems too high to take as one may lose the other sheep when the shepherd goes elsewhere to search, and still he may not be able to find that lost one. The opportunity cost is too high! Is it worth? But God has a different point of view. God value each of us and love each of us. God would not abandon us and leave us alone when we are in helpless and uncertainties. Nothing can stop God from searching us when God know us lost the way.
When God found the lost one, he would not confine him in a certain way. God would still give the lost one freedom and he may go astray again. Then, God would take the risk and search for the lost one again. I heard this message from a priest in a mass. What a powerful message! It's so true to us, isn't it? God use his love to move us until we choose to go back to him and choose his house as our home to stay in forever. God won't use force to ask us to return; nor He use law to abide us to follow Him. God use the power of love to touch us so that we turn to Him willingly and respond to His love in a concrete way.
There are so many times that we follow our own way to do whatever we want to do, to treat other people as we like and may hurt them, to seek for pleasure and satisfy our own desire and not caring the need of others. God know all these and give us freedom to do so. But He use various means to remind us that we did wrong and guide us to the right track. Sometimes we aware our fault but sometimes not. God wait for us to return patiently until one day we are touched by His love. God is always ready here to forgive our sins and welcome us back home.
May God grant us this sense of awareness and strength to turn to God and respond to His love!
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