What if you couldn’t see more than 10 feet in front of you, and that everything beyond that is totally blurry? That would be very hard to do anything useful on your own, right? Fortunately, God has gifted us with eyesight that can see, at best, up to 250 feet clearly.
But sheep aren’t so lucky. They literally are short-sighted, and cannot see beyond 10 to 15 feet in front of them. They have very wide vision, like a super-wide-angle lens; and this is because their eyes are on opposite sides of their head. But still, they cannot see far. They’re easily distracted, but they hardly have any idea where they are or where they’re going. That is why sheep have a notorious reputation for going astray, and just wandering around and often getting lost. And Jesus had several parables about sheep getting lost, like for example in Luke 15:3-7, where He talks about a shepherd going after the one lost sheep.
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