Looking for What Is Lost

Have you ever lost something that was important to you?  When I was born, my great grandmother made me a quilt.  It is large an blue and on it are several panels that she embroidered scenes from children stories and nursery rhymes.  And while I don't use it anymore, it is important to me.  In making the transitions between college and work and marriage there was a period where I moved multiple times within a few years and in that time I lost it.

Boxes of my things had been stored here and there and honestly, I hadn't thought about my old baby quilt in some time.  One day I remembered it and wondered where I had put it.  I started looking and it was no where to be found.  I stewed about it fo a while, then one day I got serious.  I went through it all, looking in all of the boxes.  It made me sick to think about, but it was gone.  

After some time I was looking in a box for some thing else and there it was.  What a relief.  I had given it up for gone, but it was back.  Now it is in that same box.  It's not like I use it, but I like knowing where it is and that it is secure.  When something is lost and it's important to us we put a lot effort into its return.

The great Commission is all about finding the lost.  As Christians people should be important to us and we should be putting effort into their safe return.  Watch this clip from Pastor Sparks.

People are important to God and they should be important to us as well.  In that regard we need to be always looking.