Luke 15:4–7 (NIV)

“Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? … I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.”

To leave 99 sheep in your flock, for one that went astray, seems crazy, until you are the one. At one stage in my life I was that one. And so was every one of us.