Lost...
Have you ever been lost? I mean truly lost... I don't know about you but often times when I start heading the wrong direction it's like something inside me is saying "where are you going". But since I am a man I keep going... I wonder what it is about us as men that are so afraid to stop and ask for directions?
Well recently I lost my keys... Yeah all of them and the key less entry control to my car. The funny thing is I had that same little voice...
See I had a friends car and I picked up my key as well and that little voice said "just leave them you don't need them". Well I took them anyway and I lost them. It isn't a real big deal honestly, but it bothers me. I hate the feeling of losing something. I am bothered by the idea that something that is pretty valuable, when you think about it, I lost them. I hate it when I have to say "I lost my keys". Sounds pretty stupid, at least when I say it.... lol.
Well there are three stories in the Bible about Lost things. The story of the lost coin, the lost sheep and the lost Son. They have this idea that something valuable is lost and the owner of the Father will do anything to find it or him. Well I can relate... I walked the ground where I thought my keys might be, I had my friend check his car and I keep looking on the counter where I last saw them. I still have this feeling inside that is hard to put into words, it's like a part of me is missing. It's weird... I am they are just keys!
I can't shake this idea of "the lost". I mean the Bible calls people who aren't followers of Jesus "lost". Lost! I could go on about this idea of what "lost" means Biblically, but we don't really have the time and space... So that being said....
Lost! We don't know where we are headed or where we are going. Lost!
I am not comparing my feeling of my lost keys to God's feeling of lost people, but I am using it as an illustration. I mean if my thoughts continually go back to my keys, then how often does God think about the lost? I didn't make the keys or love my keys... But God created us! God made us in HIS image. God loves us deeply.... I can't even imagine how HE feels. I can't fathom the heart ache HE had for those that don't realize how loved they are, by the one who know what your capable of...
God I pray that I find my keys... Just like I pray that you continually find the lost, God help us all who call you Father bring people closer to You one step at a time. God thank you for using us in spite of us not because of us.... Amen.
Well recently I lost my keys... Yeah all of them and the key less entry control to my car. The funny thing is I had that same little voice...
See I had a friends car and I picked up my key as well and that little voice said "just leave them you don't need them". Well I took them anyway and I lost them. It isn't a real big deal honestly, but it bothers me. I hate the feeling of losing something. I am bothered by the idea that something that is pretty valuable, when you think about it, I lost them. I hate it when I have to say "I lost my keys". Sounds pretty stupid, at least when I say it.... lol.
Well there are three stories in the Bible about Lost things. The story of the lost coin, the lost sheep and the lost Son. They have this idea that something valuable is lost and the owner of the Father will do anything to find it or him. Well I can relate... I walked the ground where I thought my keys might be, I had my friend check his car and I keep looking on the counter where I last saw them. I still have this feeling inside that is hard to put into words, it's like a part of me is missing. It's weird... I am they are just keys!
I can't shake this idea of "the lost". I mean the Bible calls people who aren't followers of Jesus "lost". Lost! I could go on about this idea of what "lost" means Biblically, but we don't really have the time and space... So that being said....
Lost! We don't know where we are headed or where we are going. Lost!
I am not comparing my feeling of my lost keys to God's feeling of lost people, but I am using it as an illustration. I mean if my thoughts continually go back to my keys, then how often does God think about the lost? I didn't make the keys or love my keys... But God created us! God made us in HIS image. God loves us deeply.... I can't even imagine how HE feels. I can't fathom the heart ache HE had for those that don't realize how loved they are, by the one who know what your capable of...
God I pray that I find my keys... Just like I pray that you continually find the lost, God help us all who call you Father bring people closer to You one step at a time. God thank you for using us in spite of us not because of us.... Amen.
posted by Andy Rainey at Wednesday, August 01, 2007
2 Comments:
Lost. You lost your keys, meaning you had your keys and then you lost them, now you are trying to find them. Lost implies you once had your keys and treasured them. I never thought about it that way. If those that do not know Jesus are "lost", does that mean that they were once not lost. Perhaps God created us, and called us good, and delighted in us, and loved us, but then we went astray, and therefore were lost. This is definitely the story of Adam and Eve, but perhaps this is our story as well - not just that we sinned as Adam and Eve sinned, but before we sinned, when God created each of us, when God brought us into the world, maybe he delighted in us, called us good, called us his own.
This post also reminds me of Heschel's book, "God in search of man" (never read it, but interesting title).
Well said.
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