Success in Life

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God is Love

 

How precious each soul is to God is brought out through the parable of

the lost sheep. There was a certain man who had one hundred sheep. One

day, one of his sheep fails to return home. Notwithstanding the fact

that he has got ninety-nine sheep safely and securely put back into

the pen, this man will take a lantern and go tout looking for the lost

sheep in the darkness of the night amid the howling wind and inclement

weather. Even though ninety-nine are there, what does it matter? He

will go after the one that is more precious to him than the

ninety-nine he has got, the one lost sheep. So over hill and dale, up

mountain crag and heights he will climb and endanger himself, risking

his life, in order to find the sheep and bring it back.

 

Such is the love of God, the Divine Love. This one lost sheep is as

precious to Him as the ninety-nine other sheep which He has already

got. Such is the love, the spontaneous love, the Father has for each

of you.

 

The Father is always gracious. No matter what a stinker you have been.

No matter what depths of degradation you have fallen in, you may have

eater with the swine. It does not matter. All that is nothing in the

eyes of the Father. Such is the parable of the prodigal son. When the

son willfully went away, the Father was so sad. He was pining for the

son more than the son knew. When the son returned, there were open

arms. Always a welcome is waiting for you, and the best robe, the

choicest robe. " Go, put my choicest robe upon my dear son who has

returned. Let everyone rejoice. " There is no parable that brings out

the relationship between the individual and God more appropriately and

wonderfully than the parable of the prodigal son.

 

This is the relationship between God and the individual soul. That is

infinite love. And no barrier can stand between you and He, only you

must start moving towards Him. Ask of His Grace, and immediately you

shall have it in abundance. In His sight all are precious. As Jesus

proclaimed: " Come unto Me all that are weary and heavy-laden; I will

give thee shelter. " God is love. If you have devotion to Him, all

other considerations are swept away. He does not care. He only sees

your heart.

 

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