LOST

Jesus calls out to us--his lost. There’s no better time than now to pause for a moment and ask ourselves, “Am I headed in the right direction in my life? Does Christ live in me? Am I dead to sin or dead in it?”

Sin is not well understood. It is one of those words that is thrown around a lot in Christian circles. Sometimes it is even hurled between people, served with a heavy helping of guilt, stamped all over the accused who end up looking like a well traveled package. 

Though we can recognize some sins which weigh heavy upon us -- sins like pride, anger and resentment -- we are not able to identify the fullness of their layered effects upon our the entirety of our bodies and souls.

God in Jesus came to embrace humanity, sufferings and all, with the greatest suffering of all being sin, that which causes distance between us and God.

The Good News is that God so loved the world He sent his only son that all who believe in Him may have everlasting life in Him.” (John 3:16)  The good news is that you and I are not in charge of our salvation. (Ephesians 2:8)  The good news is that Jesus, the one who is without sin, will lift you and carry you from the perils of sin as a shepherd does his sheep. (John 10:11).  Jesus came to save "the lost." (Matthew 18:11; Luke 19:10)

God says in Ezekiel “I will search for them, I will seek them out. I will rescue my sheep when they have been scattered on days of cloud and thick darkness...I will seek the lost.” While we can lose our way in the thick darkness of sin we still have the ability to turn, away from the life of the lost and towards Him who seeks us.

Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly, do everything in the name of Lord Jesus, and give thanks and praise to God the Father.