Lost Things

Have you ever lost something important or valuable? How have you responded to loosing something that you love? What makes loosing something or someone so frightening or serious? What is the appropriate response to loosing something or someone important?

Most of us have experienced loosing something or someone important or valuable to us. Some of us have even been lost ourselves.

The important thing about lost things and lost people is they can be found.

In Luke chapter fifteen, Jesus told the parables of the lost sheep, the lost coin, and the lost sons in response to the tax collectors and sinners who were all drawing near to hear him, and the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, ‘This man receives sinners and eats with them.’” (Luke 15:1-2, ESV).

In The Parable of the Lost Sheep, the shepherd leaves the 99 sheep and finds the one lost sheep. Jesus says, “And when he [the shepherd] 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.’ Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.” (Luke 15:6-7, ESV).

In The Parable of the Lost Coin Jesus says, “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?” Jesus concludes the parable saying, “Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.” (Luke 15:8-10, ESV).

Lost things can be found. And just as lost things can be found, God can find lost people.

May we see that Jesus came to seek and to save the lost, and may we seek God when we are lost, and seek out the lost that they may be found by Jesus.

A Collect for the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, or the Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity (Proper 19): “O God, because without you we are not able to please you, mercifully grant that your Holy Spirit may in all things direct and rule our hearts; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer. 2019).

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