It is easy enough for us to understand how the Syrian shepherd knows each of his sheep by name. His flock is small, and he can readily know the name of each. But when we think of the millions who are in Christ’s flock, it seems strange to us that He knows and calls each one by name. Yet the truth is made very clear in the Scriptures. Every mother knows her own children by name, and it is as easy for the Good Shepherd to know each of His millions by name as for any human mother to know each of her little group of children. There is comfort in this teaching. WE are not lost in the crowd. Each one of us is individualized in God’s love and thought and care.