Promise in the Prophets 177: Sought Out, Not Forsaken

177. Sought Out, Not Forsaken

Isaiah 62:12 And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the Lord: and thou shall be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.

The redeemed people of the Lord are the holy people. The Lord Jesus made people holy when they believed in Christ for salvation. God promises that these people will be called “Sought out.” They are people for whom the Lord has been looking, seeking, searching, and then finding. Believers are like the lost sheep for which the Shepherd searches for everywhere until He finds him. Thank God that lost people are not just written off as a loss. The Good Shepherd cares about and cares for each individual person, and He seeks until He finds each one of us. He tenderly picks us up and softly carries us back to the safe fold under His care.

I need to regard myself as a “sought out one.” I am so special to God that He will not give up on me no matter how far I have strayed. And when the Lord has sought me out there is great rejoicing on the part of the finder and of the found. God will come for me and come to me wherever I am. I am lost; I cannot find my way; and I cannot grope my way into the Kingdom. The best thing a lost child can do is just stay put where he is until he is found. Give up and be willing to be sought out. God the Lord will do it, for His love knows no bounds. And whenever His children do not feel like they know the way out of the maze, or get mired in the swamp, or feel like the troubles are too much for them, then they can trust the Shepherd.

We should not, and we do not, ever feel forsaken or left alone. We are “a city not forsaken.” God cannot, and will not, leave us alone to flounder in uncertainty. His promise is: “I will never, no never, not ever, leave you or forsake you.” Jesus was forsaken for your sake in order that you should never be forsaken again, ever. All God’s children go through various seasons of feeling alone, trial periods, and times of difficulties, but we always have this promise: you are sought out and never forsaken.