This can be the famous or the not-so-famous paintings, old or new.
Mine is ‘The Rescue’ by Nathan Greene, of Jesus with his staff reaching down to retrieve a lost black lamb who had gone astray. The lamb is on steep landscape before a gnarled wall of high roots, with a cliff and a waterfall in the background, showing that the lamb has indeed wandered from its calm pasture. Jesus, from the flat and stable ground that he stands upon, is reaching down to the retrieve the lamb. The image brought tears to my eyes. The inspiration of the painting is from Matthew 18: 12-14:
What do you think? If a shepherd has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray? And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray. So it is not the will of your Father in heaven that one of these little ones should be lost.
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