“I have gone astray like a lost sheep; Seek Your servant, For I do not forget Your

commandments.”- Psalms 119:176 

Notes:

My favorite game to play when I was a child was hide-and-seek.  Oh, the anticipation and the adventure of it!  Hiding under beds and tables were some of my favorite spots. Nevertheless, it seemed no matter how great of spot I found to hide in, or no matter how fast I would run to touch base, I could never seem to avoid being tagged by the one that was called to be “it”.  

Jesus said “I have come to seek and save that which is lost”.  Furthermore, He didn’t come to seek after some children hiding under furniture, but after an entire world that was hiding under sin.  While we all had or have different hiding places that we choose, or have different paces that we run at, we can never escape the one called by God, Jesus of Nazareth, in which every knee will bow to and every tongue confess that HE IS LORD.  

While I am a gentile, as most of you are, we must understand that it was God that sought us first, as it is written by the prophet Isaiah, “I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not.”

In the parable of the lost coin, Jesus said that the woman left the coins she had to pursue just one coin that was lost.  In other words, the Word left all the glories of Heaven to become flesh on earth to rescue and save humanity.  Oh, what great love our Lord has for us!

Willing to Take the Challenge?

While it is a great truth that we are sought by God, we are “found” by Him only when we repent and believe the gospel.  Have you been found by Him?  We are not found by Him once, but every day, as we strive according to His grace to continuously turn away from sin and set our eyes upon the everlasting word of God, Jesus Christ.