Finding What is Lost
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What would you do if you lost ten percent of all you had? Would you look for what you lost? What if you lost a day, would you spend an hour trying to get it back?
In Luke’s gospel account, Jesus told The Parable of the Lost Coin about a woman who lost ten percent of the coins she had, equaling an entire day’s wages.
Jesus said, “Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until she finds it? And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.’ Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.” (Luke 15:8-10, ESV).
God seeks out the lost sinner because he values us. When we are lost, Jesus lights a lamp scouring the darkness. He combs meticulously through this broken world looking to restore us to himself. Jesus seeks diligently until he finds us, and rejoices greatly with all of heaven when he does.
May we be found by Jesus as we repent and turn to him for our salvation.
A Collect for Mission II: “O God, you have made of one blood all the peoples of the earth, and sent your blessed Son to preach peace to those who are far off and to those who are near: Grant that people everywhere may seek after you and find you; bring the nations into your fold; pour out your Spirit upon all flesh; and hasten the coming of your kingdom; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer, 2019).
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