If you’ve
ever lost anything you know what Jesus is speaking of in Luke 15.
The thing is
- you HAVE lost something. That’s the
whole point. Jesus wants you to know
exactly how
God feels about what He has lost.
If you had
lost a sheep, what would you do? Of course you would seek after it to try to
find it. The sheep has both monetary and emotional value to you. You would do
everything you could to find that sheep. You might re-visit the places the
sheep had preferred. You might go back to the water hole, and you would definitely
search the dangerous pitfalls the sheep may have gone down into.
When even a
single sheep is missing, it is a very uncomfortable feeling, and that lack of
peace will not be resolved until you know what happened to that sheep.
How
interesting Jesus referred to His followers as ‘sheep.’ How good to know if we
wander, or fall into danger, Jesus is going to come looking for us.
Or perhaps
as a woman you have lost an important piece of jewelry. This ‘coin’ Jesus
refers to is one which you would have worn in a ten-piece head-dress at your
wedding. How important to you that missing coin would be. You would search high
and low, and you would involve the whole family in the search. That silver coin
has value in and of itself, but knowing it is part of your marriage head-dress
only increases its loss when it is missing.
How
interesting Jesus’ followers are referred to as ‘the Bride of Christ.’
But how can
God ‘lose’ anything? Doesn’t He know all and see all. Doesn’t He know exactly
where the lost item can be found?
Well, what
if the lost ‘item’ is lost on purpose? What if the lost item has left of its
own accord, and doesn’t desire to be found? What if the lost item that is lost
intentionally and doesn’t want to be found is your own son?
We learn
more about the heart of God and how He feels for His children in this chapter
than perhaps any other. Jesus wants it that way.
-Pastor Bill
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