The God Who Searches for His People
The Lord Jesus told the parables of the shepherd who left the ninety-nine in the open country and he went after the lost sheep, and the woman lit a lamp and swept the house and searched carefully for the lost coin. Neither of them shrugged their shoulders and thought, 'Only one . . . we can live without one.' No. They searched for what they had lost. There was a husband and wife in Portugal who were enjoying a meal in the grounds of their hotel, but when they popped back to their room to check on their wee daughter Madeleine they found that she was missing from her bed. They didnt think, 'Just a tiny girl. Well conceive another one . . .' They began a search which some years later they are still continuing. 'Well never stop looking for our daughter,' they say. They were moved to search by love and compassion and fear, and they followed every lead searching for the one theyd lost. They called in the police of two countries, and private investigators, and the British government, and even the Pope. They spoke to the media and did everything in their power to find the one they had lost. They are still searching as I write; they will never give up.
Men and women are lost, but God seeks for the lost. That is the elementary but glorious message of these parables. We are lost people but Jesus hasnt given up on us. Why did he come into the world? He tells us very clearly, 'To seek and to save that which is lost.' So let me make this fact very clear, uncomfortably clear to some of you who tell me that you are the ones who are 'seeking for God.' I have often told you that the New Testament language is quite the opposite, that it doesnt show us people who are seeking Christ, in fact it says quite categorically there is none seeking God. The sheep has deliberately gone off from the flock. The coin has no ability to search for its owner. Neither lost sheep nor lost coin has been searching for its owner. What we find in the Bible is this - the Lord God Almighty is actually seeking men and women. I find that the theme of these first two parables is of God seeking for us, and the condemnation within the third parable of the prodigal son is that his older brother did not set off urgently seeking for him in the distant city. He was not a godlike man. I find Jesus saying here, 'God is seeking you.' That is why you could not keep away from this congregation and this preaching today as on other Sundays.
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We are what we are by the grace of a searching God. He found me – blessed be his name! I sought the Lord and afterward I knew he moved my soul to seek him, seeking me. It was not I that found, O Saviour true, No, I was found by Thee.' By Geoff Thomas.
As the sun rose the following day, and I was contemplating upon my new faith, I realized that it was my 23rd birthday, and it was God who had helped me fulfill my promise. After all of my searching, God revealed to me a faith that I had never
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Socrates stated that "the unexamined life is not worth living." While there are those who are bold and nihilistic enough to deny this statement, most of us in the West would agree to it. It is not unusual to see a bumper sticker on the car in front of yours that says "Question Authority." Here in the U.S. we pride ourselves on our independent thought and attitude, and look to our Founding Fathers as examples of great men worthy to emulate because of their strong stance against the tyranny of Britain's King George. We are forever stretching the bounds of the Manifest Destiny into areas never even conceived in the minds of the early pioneers of our nation. One value that is much vaunted today is that of open-mindedness. Just what do we mean when we say we are open-minded? The positive sense is that of a person who is willing to consider new ideas, alternatives, or concepts. On the other hand there is the person who is "so open-minded that their brain is in danger of falling out when they reach down to pick up a pencil off of the floor." A certain intellectual flexibility is necessary when considering a search as daunting as meaning and purpose in the universe. In fact it is absolutely necessary. Rigidity in thought, lack of intellectual curiosity, and plain, old-fashioned laziness are road blocks we must overcome before we attempt the journey towards a deeper understanding of our place in history, life, the universe, and everything.
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