LAMBS

I had the best time visiting the farm in Gold Coast, Australia last month.  My favorite part was feeding, holding, and playing with the animals (lambs, koalas, kangaroos, cows, and dogs).

Today, out of all the animals, I'm writing about the lamb (baby sheep).  I read online recently that a sheep mother sometimes dies while giving birth to a little lamb.  Additionally, sometimes a sheep mother would give birth to a stillborn lamb.  So what the ranchers would do is to match up the orphan lamb with the sheep mother who had the stillborn lamb.

However, this match up effort wouldn't come easy.  The sheep mother wouldn't accept the orphan lamb because she can identify that it's not her own lamb just by sniffing its smell.  As a result, the ranchers would first smear the stillborn lamb's blood on the orphan lamb before giving this orphan lamb to the sheep mother.  Since the sheep mother could smell the blood of her own lamb, she would then take this orphan lamb, nurse it, and feed it.

For me, this story is a lot like my salvation story.  I was born wretched and sinful as a human; so unworthy to come before the Holy God.  But there was The Lamb of God who died on the cross for me to give me salvation and mercy.  With His blood He covered me and made me worthy and acceptable before the Lord.  I am glad I was found.  I am glad to be His own daughter.

"For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers, but with the previous blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect." -- 1 Peter 1:18-19.

How about you?  Are you an orphan lamb?  May this be a blessing.