chasing after the one
If you want to run something successfully you have to put the best time into the best people – everyone knows that.
If you have 99 people who are pouring into what you’re doing and one person who walks away, you let the one walk and work with the 99.
Unless you’re trying to live like Jesus.
Because for some reason Jesus was obsessed with the one. Really you could say it goes deeper than that: Jesus was obsessed with helping the lost become found.
He developed this concept with three consecutive stories: a lost sheep (one of 99), a lost coin (one of ten) and a lost person (one of two). For the religious elite, these stories ranged from baffling to infuriating – because in each story the things that were found were left by the master in order to find the things which were lost. For the master to do something favored those who were out over those who were in was ridiculous in their minds.
But that’s the beauty of God.
And it only gets more beautiful when we find that we are the ones who have fallen away.
That he would drop everything he is doing and come after us.
Pursue us – even in our wandering.
To know that he chases after the one.


