Come
Home
One
thing I'm afraid of is getting lost. If
I'm driving in an unfamiliar area and lose my way. I begin to get very upset. My grown kids get wound up and I have to pull
over and collect myself. I'm very afraid
of being lost out on the highway. I
guess it's because I'm afraid I won't be
able to find my way home. I have been
lost a few times for hours and it is not fun at all. Getting lost and not having a phone to call
home is especially stressful, because you know family members will be wondering
where you are.
One
Christmas, the Lord provided us with the money for a GPS. I'm so thankful for the device, because I
feel reassured I can find my way home.
Finding our way home is much easier today because of cell phones and
other electronic devices but what about bible times?
I
was thinking of bible people who couldn't find their way home and remembered
the little lost lamb. The little lamb wandered away from the fold and was not
under the protection of the shepherd.
The shepherd notices one missing lamb, when he counted his sheep. The shepherd loves his sheep and WILL lay his
life down for them. He left the 99 sheep
settled safely in the sheepfold and went out searching for his lost lamb. The little lamb could not find his way home
and someone loved him enough to go searching for him. He finds him and carries him back safely to
the fold.
I
thought of the prodigal son, who left his home in rebellion, spent all his
money in riotous living. He wandered away from
everything he was taught, everything he knew was right. He ended up in the slop bucket of sin. The
pig pin, eating the slop thrown to the pigs.
He realized for the first time. I
want to be home, I want to go home, but will I be loved? Will I be accepted, just as a servant in my
father's home? He had to find his way
home and when He did his father rejoiced at his return.
Some
people wonder why Christians use the
word lost. When someone is lost, he's
someone who needs to be found, someone who needs to find their way home. I'm reminded of the song Amazing Grace, in
the words of the song it says " I once was lost, but now I'm found, was
blind but now I see".
Without
Christ we are lost in a world of confusion and hopelessness. Without Christ our soul is lost and held
captive and destined for damnation. If
you've ever played baseball, you know if you never bring the ball home, you'll
never win. We need to lead lost people
home. They can't find their own way
home, they are lost and confused and need someone who can understand and see the
things of God to show them and lead them the way. Just as the little lost lamb, who would have
died had no one cared.
Now
some people who are lost, are people who have known the things of God but have
made some bad decisions in life and lost their way and forgot their way
home. They are saved eternally but have
been taken captive by sin or confusion.
They became distracted by other things and lost their first love for
God. They have done things they find
hard to forgive themselves for and are wondering if God would really accept
them back. Some may be blaming someone
else for their falling away and resentment has blinded their eyes. They have believed the devils lies and cannot
comprehend their way home. God uses
people to win people. Using baseball
for example , it may take a really good ball player to bring the ball into home
base. When the prodigal son returned
home he didn't know what to expect. He knew he did not deserve loved because he
had turned his back on his family, but when his father saw him from a distance,
His father wept with joy to see him return.
With joy his Father's arms opened in acceptance of him.
If
we have wandered away as a child of God, if we are willing to come home to God
the Father, with true repentance, He will not refuse us. He will take us back with joy and love us
just the same .
Father
God,
Help
us to be an encouraging person today, help us love others back to
you. Help us have the wisdom and
understanding how to guide the lost to you.
As you say in your Word, He that winneth souls is wise. Open the eyes of those that have wandered
away and open their hearts to understand you want them to come home. Lead us to
the lost that we may bring them safely home, under the blood of your promise.
In The Name Of Christ Jesus I Pray This - Amen
Luke15
[4]
What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not
leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost,
until he find it?
[6]
And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbours, saying
unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost.
. [9]
And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbours
together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost.
[24]
For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And
they began to be merry.
[32]
It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was
dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.
Luke:19
For
the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
Susan Y Nikitenko
July 23rd, 2014
Lesson/Devotional - LOST
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