How far can we go to get the lost sheep? Where are you willing to go? Where am I willing to go? Where did Christ go or send someone to gather us in? Is there a price to steep, a mountain so high it will keep us away from them. Will we go into the highways and the byways and gather the lost sheep in? Gathering the scattered in takes a tremendous amount of work. Often we can spend a enormous amount of time gathering and find very little sheep coming into the fold. Christ said that there much rejoicing when a lost lamb returns. The tension between gathering the scattered being the shepherd to the ones that have follow you as the shepherd is difficult, however we must not forget the scattered to love the remaining. In gathering the scattered we are demonstrating our love for sheep in general.