Are You Lost?

A few weeks ago, we took a friend of ours to a local craft fair and were greatly amused by a sign near the parking lot. Husbands If Lost Wait Here. It made us all chuckle, especially when Jonathan agreed to pose for this picture. I wonder how many husbands patiently waited by the sign while their wives were exploring the crafts with the checkbook! How many people actually get lost at a craft fair? There was a large crowd that day, but would you actually stand around waiting to be found?

What about those people in our lives who are lost spiritually? Are they waiting to be found? In Luke 15 Jesus shares his view:

Luke 15:4-6 Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Does he not leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, 'Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.'

He didn't say he went out to find a group of lost sheep, or a couple of lost sheep...he searched for the one lost. Do you notice the one friend who is missing from the kingdom? The one family member? The one co-worker? Jonathan and I feel called to minister to the lost people of Hungary, but would be go for one lost Hungarian? Would you go for one?

Luke 15:7 I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.

I think the reality is that Jesus came to this earth to die for us...and he would have come and died for one of us.