BEING LOST

I have been physically lost many times in the deepest and dense high country of the Sierra’s on horseback in the cold and rain alone (that sounds like a good start on a country song) and I have been lost in big cities in many places and countries (that might be the second verse). I have been so lost I did not know up from down, right from left and nothing of any of the four directions. (That might be the third verse) Being lost is really creepy.

David Platt, pastor and mission’s leader wrote, “There’s really only one thing worse than being lost. What’s worse is being lost when no one is trying to find you.” (That might be the fourth verse)

That is really true. Especially if you lived before GPS. Lost is one thing and no one looking for you is another. All of this of course relates as well to the spiritual context of being lost or found… at least someone is looking for you. Nothing is greater than being found when once you were lost. Physically and spiritually. (That might the fifth and final verse)

“What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.’” Jesus