Today, a popular mini-series that ran off of the idea of certain reality shows goes by the name "Lost". It gambles on the idea that we affiliate with the concept that being lost also implies adventure, and danger. Of course, its not quite what you and I would call lost perhaps; maybe what Hollywood would call it. A movie called "Cast Away" where Tom Hanks plays someone ditched in ocean and fortunate enough to land on an island; it demonstrated more realistic feelings of being bewildered, lost and confused..Funny how we tend to associate the term lost in popular contexts. Typically you'd hear the term "lost" with "confused", or "lost and confused". This thinking leads to coloring lost as what we usually use it as: disoriented, not knowing your way, to miss your bearings.
Last November, I got re-acquainted with the genuine feelings that come with the term. Hunting for the first time, I was up on a second ridge that separated myself from my scouting partner who had his GPS unit; meanwhile both our two-ways were getting full of static and low on juice. So, as I headed back down to reconnect -stepping through 3 to 4 1/2 foot snow drifts I began to tire and although I was heading downslope I began to side-step too much and had to back track twice to regain my original tracks of accent. I was so tired my energy level dropped and it worried me; by the time I got down my partner found me just before i actually found the road (I actually went in the right direction). I did get there but off-course of my initial ingress by a long shot. And boy...was I glad to be on track to get to the car and the refreshments..
People who may have gotten lost in
the woods think of questions that don't come to them like when they're in their apartment or at work ("where can I find water" "what will become of me"). When we have lost our way in this life its also customary to come up with hard core questions. Questions like, "what will become of me", "why should I keep going" or "what is the purpose?". It's good to when we come at these questions, for the Bible says that all have sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God. We are all lost, "there's nobody living right, not even one, nobody who knows the score, nobody alert for God. They've all taken the wrong turn; they've all wandered down blind alleys. No one's living right.."
Romans 3:10-12 MSG
Sometimes it takes a bad turn for some of us to really see where we are and hopefully make right decisions before we lose it all. When Christ died on the cross for our sins, it was a one-time payment.. an atonement for our sins that brings light into our world helping us understand that yes...we HAVE been lost. "For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost." Luke 19:10 ESV.
If you come and seek Christ today to forgive you of your sins, he will give you purpose and direction. For as He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, in Christ " is life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it" John 1:4-5 ESV. It is time for you to accept Him as your Saviour today; realize you are lost...before you lose everything.
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