Fake Family

 

I was cleaning out a drawer in the dresser in our third bedroom (which hasn’t been touched in years), and I found a 4X6 picture frame.  It had never been used.  How do I know? you might ask.  Well, the frame had that paper family picture of the perfect family in it that comes in the frame from the store.  You know, dad with the prefect hair, slender mom with her tiny waist.  And the smiling brother and sister in her cute little dress.  I pulled out the frame, took out the paper family, and put in a picture of my two grandsons.  No one cared that I threw away the picture of the store-bought family because it was just a fake family.  But if someone pulled out the picture of my two grandsons and threw it away, well, they would have a fight on their hands.  Generic pictures are throw-away, but family pictures are precious!  Hey, the Lord loves each one of us, and we are all precious to Him.  John 10:27-29, “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.”  We are the Good Shepherd’s little lambs, and all of us are precious to Him!