Our church treasurer sent me a text today saying she needed a piece of paperwork. The first of the year finds my desk covered in paperwork as I strive to wrap up the previous year and make new plans for the coming year. It wasn’t going to be fun. Looking for a piece of paper in stack of pieces of paper is like looking for a needle in a stack of needles. I looked everywhere I could think of and came up empty. It is frustrating when you can see in your mind what you are looking for and not find it. After i looked everywhere, I sent her the bad news. She was looking into a work around when she called me with the news that she had found it. Hallelujah!
There is nothing like looking for something lost. You lose yourself in it. Life stops until you find it. Nothing else matters until you get what you are looking for.
Luke chapter fifteen tells us of some lost things. They were a sheep and a coin. We are given these parables as a picture of how God seeks us before we are saved. As furiously as we pour through stacks of papers, drawers and boxes looking for one specific thing, God seeks us specifically just as diligently.
If you’re wondering how much God loves you, the next time you are looking for a particular item, remember that God sought you just as diligently.
Joel Stiff's Adventure 