The Lost has been found!!!

Have you ever lost something? Being who I am, I have lost things quite a bit. Because I am married, when I lose something, I just have to say a few words: Beth: do you know where this thing that I lost went..” and normally she is able to find what has been lost. 

however, there was a time before I was married, that I had lost something I deemed very important. It was given to me at a Pastor’s function, actually my first pastors function, and I held on to this for quite some time.. until I lost it. When I lost it, I was devastated. I looked everywhere for this lost item, I looked high and I looked low. I looked for the item in the hands of other people I knew. I had come to the point where I would ever see this item again. It was lost. 

Then, all of a sudden, one day, I noticed that one of my friends had found my lost item. not only had he found it, He was actually using it! I immediately told him, HEY: THAT’S MINE! He told me to hang on and he would give it to me when he was done. 

Losing something is not very fun, or nice. When people go missing for long periods of time, we send out a search party and scour the woods and try to find them. 

The problem is we are all lost. We are lost in sin, and shame and regret and failure. Thankfully, God knows this, and He sent out a search party out to look for is a long time ago. 

Jesus Himself said: “For the Son of Man came see and to save the lost.”(Luke 18)

You could almost describe this as His mission statement. This is the sole reason He came to this earth. to find what was lost. Rather, find WHO was lost. You and me. This is great news; the lost has been found and we can be with Him.

for the record, I still have that lost item. (it doesn't work anymore, but I still have it!) (Posted December 15/2017)