Only a shepherd who is in “crazy love” love with his sheep would leave the ninety-nine to go after the one who is lost. Yet that, Fr Peter points out, is exactly what Jesus is telling us God is like. We have no need to be envious of anyone. God loves each of each of us as though we were the most important person on earth.
“[The Lord, your God,] will be with you and will never fail you or forsake you. So do not fear or be dismayed.”
DT 31:1-8
“It is not the will of your heavenly Father that one of these little ones be lost.”
MT 18:1-5, 10, 12-14