Grace That Doesn’t Make Sense
I was reading about the shepherd who leaves ninety-nine sheep to go find the one that wandered off.
(Luke 15:4)
And I caught myself thinking…
That wouldn’t make it into any leadership manual.
No one writes a strategy that says:
risk the safety of the masses
to go after the one who walked away.
It feels inefficient.
Risky.
Even a little irresponsible.
Ninety-nine are safe.
One is missing.
You stay with the ninety-nine.
That’s what makes sense.
But Jesus tells the story differently.
Because He’s not teaching management.
He’s revealing His heart.
And His heart moves toward the one.
The one who wandered.
The one who got it wrong.
The one who feels too far gone to matter.
I’ve lived enough life to know
I’ve been that one.
More than once.
And if I’m honest, I don’t naturally think like that shepherd.
I protect what’s working.
I focus on the majority.
I measure things in terms of return.
I treat the outliers as expendable.
But grace doesn’t run on that system.
Grace moves toward what doesn’t deserve it.
It pursues what can’t pay it back.
It goes out of its way for one.
That kind of grace doesn’t make sense.
Until I realize…
It’s the only reason I was ever found.
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