The Echo

In the Old Testament, God called four times before the boy prophet Samuel heard his voice for what it was.  Many times we are like that, and something must call out to us repeatedly for us to really hear it.
The reason I bring this up is because of a poem I heard today in church services.  It is the third or fourth time I have heard it in a formal church setting in the past couple of months.  Each time, it has touched me at a slightly different level.  So I decided to post it here for you to see; who knows, perhaps it will be the voice of the Lord for you, calling again to be heard.

 

’Twas a sheep not a lamb

that strayed away

in the parable Jesus told,

a grown-up sheep that strayed away

from the ninety and nine in the fold.

And why for the sheep should we seek

and earnestly hope and pray?

Because there is danger when sheep go wrong:

they lead the lambs astray.

Lambs will follow the sheep, you know,

wherever the sheep may stray.

When sheep go wrong,

it won’t take long

till the lambs are as wrong as they.

And so with the sheep we earnestly plead

for the sake of the lambs today,

for when the sheep are lost

what a terrible cost

the lambs will have to pay.

C. C. Miller