To Be Near Unto God 21. Amidst shades and darkness with the velocity of the twinkling of an eye, a ray of clear white soft light darts out from a single point as its source, spreads itself over an ever increasing surface of country below, and immediately every object and form in the track of that light stands out in sharp outline.
Nothing remains hidden.
Scripture here employs the figure of the shepherd who is out on the hills seeking the lamb that wandered off from the flock and is lost. This figure from country life stands far higher than that of the searchlight. Here also is reciprocity. The lost sheep bleats helplessly for the shepherd the while the shepherd scans the moun tain side to find it. The lost sheep wants to be found, and the shepherd wants to find it.