February 10, 2022 - I remember in elementary school, in the school office we had a cardboard box that was the “lost and found” collection. In that box you were likely to find notebooks, gloves, sweaters, jackets and various other articles. They were things that had been left on the playground, on benches, in the cafeteria and in classrooms. At the end of the year, most of those articles had gone unclaimed. However, occasionally, someone would have “lost” something and the teacher would tell them to go to the office and look through the “lost and found box.”
The idea of looking for something that is lost is something that Jesus talked about in Luke chapter 15. He said in verse 4, “Which 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 finds it.” Jesus said in another place, recorded in Luke 19:10, “For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.”
Aren’t those comforting thoughts for us? There is one who is actively seeking those people who have been cast off or lost. One who is actively seeking those who are lost in sin. Ordinary people like us. When we obey his will and live his kind of life, we are no longer in the “lost and found box” we are His children, part of God’s family.
It’s something to think about… tbp
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