We should put forth that labour in the field of sacred usefulness which is most remunerative. The most generous instincts of our nature will help us to understand his action when he went to the house of the publican, or suffered the daughter of shame to come in penitence to his feet. Christ's heart prompts him to find that human soul which is lost in the mazes of error, or caught in the meshes of vice, or starving on the barren plains of unbelief. If you have a hundred sheep, and of these all but one are safely sheltered from the cold and protected from every peril, but that one is shut out, is away shivering in the blast, is exposed to the attack of the wild beast, is nearing the deadly precipice, - your heart prompts you to, leave those that are safe, and to go and seek and rescue the one that is lost. AN APPEAL TO OUR FINER AND NOBLER INSTINCTS. For on what more fitting errand could the Saviour be engaged than on that of saving another human soul from its sin and its shame, and lifting it up into the light and liberty of the truth? But there are three reasons which we gain from the words or the actions of our Lord which perfectly justified him (and would justify us) in seeking out and saving a lost human soul. This great and most beneficent purpose is enough of itself to explain such action as he took on this occasion it covers the propriety of the conduct which seemed at the time so inexplicable to the good people of his day. And the Son of man came to seek this erring and lost race, to lead it back again, to restore it to its heritage in wisdom, in righteousness, in God. Clarkson Mankind had lost its way utterly, its way from the home of God, from the fields of truth, from the path of holiness, from the fountains of joy was wandering, blind and miserable, in forbidden ways was stumbling on the dark mountains of error and sin. Tholuck's Personal Effort for Individual Souls A Son of Abraham Found in Zacchaeus the PublicanĬhrist Seeking and Saving Those Who Were Lost
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