May 2–Whats Lost?

Happy Thursday. Yesterday, at work I sold an older man a pair of diamond earrings for his wife. He looked them over so carefully and we even looked at them under the microscope so he could see how they sparkled. Then he confided why he was buying them. His wife had gone in for surgery a few months ago and they had given him her earrings in an envelope to care for. And he’s misplaced them. He said he had “looked, searched, prayed” and still no earrings. So today, he just

bought another pair! 


“Or suppose a woman has ten silver coins and loses one. Won’t she light a lamp and sweep the entire house and search carefully until she finds it? And when she finds it, she will call in her friends and neighbors and say, ‘Rejoice with me because I have found my lost coin.’ In the same way, there is joy in the presence of God’s angels when even one sinner repents.””

‭‭Luke‬ ‭15:7-10‬ ‭NLT‬‬


I hate it when I lose things, I will search for hours or days. (I once lost a very nice ring that I prayed to find for years.) I suppose we may wonder why God wouldn’t help him find those earrings the way the woman found the coin. Wouldn’t that have been a kind thing to do? But for whose glory? Who would have been magnified through that process and is there a bigger way for God to use that situation? What we know is God provides for us in His own way, in His own timing and for His own glory.


So what are those things brings God glory? When one sinner repents. Just a verse above this, we read: “In the same way, there is more joy in heaven over one lost sinner who repents and returns to God than over ninety-nine others who are righteous and haven’t strayed away!” Luke‬ ‭15:7‬ ‭NLT‬‬


If our loss (be it a diamond, a car, or a loved one), can bring glory and honor to our God and King, can have an impact in some way to turn even one sinner, then with that, we should be the most content of people, even without what we thought we really wanted. 


Dear Lord, thank you for the things we find, but thank you, too for the things we don’t. We want to give our loss and our “misplacements” to you our Father. We honor your timing and your way and we pray for your name to be glorified. You are the mighty God, Creator, Sustainer, Lord of Heaven and we worship you. Amen and amen


Love you dear one,

Pam



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