Jesus tells these two parables in today’s gospel to show us what God’s
forgiveness is like. When we go astray; when we fail to walk in Jesus’ way
of love; when we do not love God with all our hearts, or we do not love our
neighbors as ourselves—God doesn’t respond with wrath. When your willpower
fails you completely, and you can’t stop yourself from slipping back into
the same broken patterns as before, God looks at you and sees a lost sheep,
who needs to be brought back to the flock. He doesn’t want to scold you, or
to punish you—he wants to pick you up, and lays you on his own shoulders,
and he rejoices, because what was once lost is now found. When you are
convinced that you’re not good enough, when you feel that vague sense of
constant guilt, God is looking at you like you’re a precious coin; God
treasures you enough to stop everything and search for you.

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