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Good Shepherd Lutheran Church Today's Frontline Devotion Saturday, June 14, 2003 Lost and Found |
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Frontline Devotion for Saturday, June 14, 2003 By Anne Crawford
Jesus ate with sinners and tax collectors and that upset the Pharisees. It’s easy to make the Pharisees the bad guys in today’s reading; to say they were narrow-minded and prejudiced and just write them off and focus on rejoicing over the lost sheep that was found. But it occurs to me that the Pharisees were also “lost sheep.” They were distracted by rules and rituals and looking right with God (rather than actually being right with Him). They were lost and either didn’t know it or couldn’t admit it.
I have a terrible time with directions – I’ve even referred to myself as directionally dyslexic – and can get so turned around when I’m driving that I literally can’t tell my right from my left. It’s a very frustrating and lonely experience not to know where you’re going, and sometimes, I must admit, I’m stubborn and don’t want to hear it when someone, usually my husband, points out that I’m going in the wrong direction.
When you’re going in the wrong direction and you don’t know it – you’re lost. When you deliberately head off in the wrong direction, you may think you know where you’re going, but if you can’t figure out how to get back, you’ll end up lost. In either case, its good to know that Jesus wants to find us and bring us back.
Are you lost? Are you willing to be found? If you don’t know where you’re headed, it’s not an easy question.
Prayer: Give us grace Lord, to walk with you daily; give us wisdom, to know when we have strayed and are lost; and strength to ask for Your direction and the willingness to be found.
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