Sought and Saved

"We will rejoice in Thy salvation" (Psalm 20:5).  "Know the state of thy flocks" (Proverbs 27:23).  "As a Shepherd seeketh out His flock... so will I seek out My sheep, and will deliver them... I will seek that which was lost" (Ezekiel 34:12,16).   "The kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls, who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it" (Matthew 13:45,46). 

As we rejoice in our salvation

We see the value of a soul

By God our Savior's estimation

Who paid redemption's price in full. 

True riches, then, are found in those

Who are by heaven so esteemed

That Jesus suffered, died, and rose

For every soul that He redeemed. 

Our Savior like a Shepherd sought

To rescue sheep which had been lost,

And as a merchant Man He bought

Our souls at heaven's highest cost. 

O Lord, we see these portraits framed

Depicting our eternal worth! 

You sought and saved the souls you claimed

Which You redeemed throughout the earth.