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Do You Feel Lost?
Luke 15:4
Have you ever found yourself to be lost? Going along down the road, you’re watching your app on your phone to where you’re supposed to go. And then you realize that you’ve lost signal on your phone. You’ve missed your turn, and now you don’t know really where you’re at. You really feel lost. There’s this, this pit in your stomach, realizing that feeling of being lost.
Jesus talks about being lost and he calls us sheep in this lesson, talking with the Pharisees who were there, and the Pharisees were criticizing Jesus because he ate with sinners and tax collectors. And how horrible it was for them to see Jesus talking with sinners and tax collectors. And he gives them this parable. He says,
Which one of you, if you had one hundred sheep and lost one of them, would not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the one that was lost until he finds it? (Luke 15:4)
You see, we go through this life and we deal with the challenges of life, the struggles, the task, the temptations and everything that comes at us. We all deal with sin. There’s not one of us that is innocent of this. We all have this challenge and we kind of can feel lost, like we’re going down the road, we don’t know where to go. We don’t know where to turn with all of that sin. But see, Jesus says that he promises, he goes out and finds that one.
So perhaps you’re a person right now that’s struggling with the challenges of life, the things that are coming at you. You realize and recognize that some of the things that you’ve done are not quite right, even in the world’s eyes. And you think, well, I could never go into a church because if I go in there, God’s going to strike me down. But see, the thing is, God loves us. The promise and the hope of salvation is for each one of us. And Jesus goes out and he looks for you and see the reason why the sinners and the tax collectors were there with Jesus, because they were dealing with their sin. It wasn’t because they were such great people. They knew and they realized their sin. And so Jesus says he sends people out to look for them.
Pastors come out looking for you to share the hope and the promise of Christ that is yours. Because of what Jesus has done. He suffered and died on the cross for us to make sure that each one of us who is lost, troubled, struggling with the sins of the world know the love and forgiveness that’s ours. Christ took all of our sins into himself on the cross, and I love the section because he comes back and he gives us a second parable of a lost coin, the ten coins the woman has. And she loses one, and she goes through her house searching for that one. And it’s the promise that God will look for you, part of his family of believers. Not one person will be left out of the kingdom of heaven in the end.
We have the hope and the promise of salvation that is for you and it is for me because of what Jesus has done on the cross. So the next time you feel as if you are a little bit lost in your way, just remember that Christ has already paid the way for you. He has found you. He has, hopefully through this video, you realize and see the love that God has for you, and salvation and hope are yours in Christ Jesus.
