Parable Of The Lost Sheep

Origin
The New Testament

Story
Many stories in the Bible are in the form of parablesi. Parables make the real teachings of the Bible easy to understand.

The kind lord Jesus spent a lot of his time with sinners. One day, as was his routine, Jesus sat sharing his teachings with a group of tax collectors and sinners.

But many people, including the Jewish spiritual leaders, named Pharisees, did not appreciate this kind of meetings. Jesus knew that it wouldn’t be an easy task to change people’s minds. So he told them a story to make Jesus’ intentions easier to understand.

The story went something like this – “If you are a shepherd with 100 sheep and if you lose one, what would you do? Won’t you leave the remaining 99 and go search for the one lost sheep? And when you find him, won’t your heart be full of joy and happiness? And when you reach home, you’ll call all your friends and family and celebrate because you found your lost sheep.”

Jesus continued, “Just as you will rejoice about the lost sheep so will the heavens rejoice when even one sinner repents and reaches out to the Lord.”

Lesson
Bringing one man to see the light of God is a reason to rejoice.