Looking for the Lost…

      I lost one of my favorite earrings, the long dangly type, while working in the yard yesterday, or so I thought.  I looked everywhere for it; carefully retracing my steps through the yard, but found nothing. Why was I wearing dangly earrings working in the yard you ask? That is a very good question.  I’m sure the weeds could have cared less about my jewelry.

      I always try to pray when I lose something and ask God to help me find it. He knows the location of everything, which is very helpful when you’ve lost something. While looking, I thought about the woman in the Bible who lost one of her coins. How carefully she searched for it until she found it. She lit a lamp and swept the whole house. 

“Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it?” Luke 15:8

I wasn’t quite that thorough, I did not sweep the yard, but I did look carefully around the grass and in the orchard. Jesus described how happy the woman was when she found the coin. She threw a little party to celebrate! But then Jesus turns the meaning of the story around and teaches us something, not about lost things, but about lost people. He says that there is a party in heaven when one lost person is found.

      The earring didn’t seem so important anymore, not compared to a person being lost.  Sometimes I forget there are people right here in my sphere of influence whose hearts have wandered far from God and gotten spiritually lost. Are there any in yours? They need a search and rescue team to go out and find them. They need you and me to care enough about them being lost that we treat them like a precious treasure needing to be found.  A busy life, and sometimes things like earrings, can distract me from the more important things if I let them. 

      I think God had a purpose in my earring search; a lesson for me to learn perhaps? This morning I found the earring on my dresser! Of course this changes my whole story to read something like – There was a lady who wore one of her favorite earrings all day – just one; everywhere she went: to the grocery store, Office Max, Walmart, and working in the yard; a lady who felt very silly finding the “missing” earring on her dresser after searching (with her husband) all over the property.

      I’m sure God must have chuckled as I hunted for my earring, but He is such a good and loving Father, He filled the search with a lesson to be learned about lost people, so time was not wasted.

Do you have lost people in your life who need to be found? Send out a search party. Heaven is waiting to rejoice over every one of them who repents and comes home to God!

Finding His grace,

Charlotte

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