A sower went out to sow....

I am thinking that the economy of God is really different from ours. If you have 100 sheep and 1 of them has gone astray would you also leave the 99 and look for the one which went astray? But it is the economy of God’s love. The love of God is quite personal, to the point that God will leave ninety-nine others just to search for the missing one. Being human, our logic sometimes dictates us to ignore that one single sheep, which we view as expendable, sacrificing it for the greater majority. But God's plan is different. God wants to save us all. He was willing to allow His Son Jesus to die for every single one of us.

It was a personal kind of love that Jesus Christ wanted to reach out to us. Just think … if we are that sheep that was lost, what a great joy we would feel, what a special feeling we would have and cherish to realize that the Lord goes through great lengths, great inconveniences just for us – a single individual, but loved by God nevertheless with the same great intensity as with the multitude. We are lucky that our God is a personal God, a personal Father, a Father who does not regard His children by preferences and importance. He regards each of us as important and equally deserving of His love. [Tuesday 19th week in ordinary time].