We all know the “black sheep,” the one who doesn’t fit in and whose choices bring raised eyebrows. But what about the pink sheep? Not white, not black, just different. Maybe they speak with another accent, worship in another style, or live by another rhythm. There is nothing wrong with them; they simply don’t match the flock we expected.
How quickly we decide they don’t belong.
It is easy to look at someone who lives differently from us and decide they are wrong or sinful. Before we know it, a verdict has formed in our hearts.
Romans 2:1 (NLT) reminds us: “You may think you can condemn such people, but you are just as guilty, for you who judge others do these very same things.”
In a flock of sinners, no sheep is spotless.
Jesus never ranked the sheep by colour. He left the ninety-nine to find the one who was lost. He carries every one of us home on His shoulders.
Parable of the Lost Sheep, Matthew 18:12-14 (NLT)
12 “If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them wanders away, what will he do? Won’t he leave the ninety-nine others on the hills and go out to search for the one that is lost? 13 And if he finds it, I tell you the truth, he will rejoice over it more than over the ninety-nine that didn’t wander away! 14 In the same way, it is not my heavenly Father’s will that even one of these little ones should perish.”
So let’s stop sorting the flock. Let’s make room for the pink sheep and even the black sheep, and remember that there is only one Shepherd, and only He is the Judge.
We are called to love the sheep who are different. Judging is not our job; it belongs to our righteous God.
华文版
我们都听过”黑羊”这个说法,指的是那个格格不入、所作所为令人侧目的人。但粉红色的羊呢?它不是白色,也不是黑色,只是与众不同。也许他们说话带着不同的口音,以不同的方式敬拜,或是按照不同的节奏生活。他们并没有什么不对,只是不符合我们对羊群的期待。
我们是多么容易就断定他们不属于这里。
我们很容易看着与自己生活方式不同的人,就认定他们是错的,甚至是有罪的。不知不觉,心里已经定了案。
《罗马书》2:1(NLT)提醒我们:”你这论断人的，无论你是谁，也无可推诿。你在什么事上论断人，就在什么事上定自己的罪；因你这论断人的，自己所行却和别人一样。
在一群罪人当中,没有一只羊是毫无瑕疵的。
耶稣从不按颜色给羊排等级。祂撇下九十九只羊,去寻找那只迷失的。祂也把我们每一个人扛在肩上,带回家去。
迷羊的比喻,马太福音 18:12-14
所以,让我们不要再给羊群分类。让我们为粉红色的羊,甚至黑色的羊,留一个位置,并记住:牧人只有一位,审判者也只有祂一位 -就是神。
我们蒙召是要去爱那些与众不同的羊。论断不是我们的工作,那是属于公义的神。
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