“In my
college years I worked as a guide, taking boys on treks into Rocky Mountain
National Park in Colorado. On one occasion one of my hikers—a small, slow
chap—lagged behind and took the wrong fork on a trail. When we arrived at our
campsite he was nowhere to be found. I frantically went out to search for him.
Just
before dark, I came across him sitting by a small lake—utterly lost and alone.
In my joy, I gave him a bear hug, hoisted him on my shoulders, and carried him
down the trail to his companions”. (D.F.– american writer).
In a
story by Scottish writer George MacDonald, he describes a young woman finding a
child alone and lost in the woods. She gathered him up in her arms and carried
him home to her father, at which point she gained an insight that was never to
leave her: “Now she understood the heart of the Son of Man, [who came] to find
and carry back the stray children to their Father and His.”
I want
you too to know the heart of Jesus, the Son of Man, who came to find and carry
back His straying children to their Father, “for the Son of Man has come to seek
and to save that which was lost” (Luke 19:10). No
matter how far you may have strayed and how lost you may be, He came to seek
and to save you.
To find
salvation, you must admit that you’re lost. (RBC)
