Lost and Found

Jesus often taught in parables, it was a great way for him to clarify his teachings.  One of my favorite parables is "The Parable of the Lost Sheep".  As read in Matthew 18: 10-14...

"See that you do not look down on one of these little ones.  For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my father in heaven.  What do you think?  If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go look for the one that wandered off? And if he finds it, I tell you the truth, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off.  In the same way your father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should be lost."


Now lets think about this in today's terms, or personally.  Have any of you ever lost something?  What were your thoughts?  Did you say "oh well I did not need that item anyway"?  Or did you try to find it? And when you found it how glad were you that you located that item?  I know this has happened to me.  I have a small problem of not replacing DVDs or XBOX games back in the cases they go in, and once when I was younger I decided to play a game I had not played in a while.  I opened the box and the game was not there.  I looked everywhere for it, I easily could have played another game, one that was in it's box, but I wanted to find that one.  I searched and I searched until I finally found it in a DVD box of all places.  Now when I found that game I was excited and relieved.

This is similar to what Jesus was saying.  There are times when a lot of us feel "lost", feel that maybe God just does not care about us. Heck some of us may even question our faith all together.  When this happens God does not say, "oh well, tough luck, I have a lot of other people who believe in me, have fun on your own pal".  No he searches for us, he calls out to us, and shows us his true love.  He does not stop until we are "found".  This is the great thing about our God, he deeply cares about all of us.  So much so that if we "wander away", he will stop at nothing to bring us back, and when he does bring us back he is deeply happy, like I was when I found that game.  So if you feel lost remember, God is searching for you, listen, look, hear, and see.  God is trying to find you, and bring you back  We are not alone, God is always there with us.

God Bless,

Andrew