Philippians 3:3-8 / Luke 15:1-10
Quite often we misplace things. Not just anything but things that we need to use, things that have some kind of sentimental value to us, things that might not belong to us even.
As much as we are careful to keep those things, there are times when out of careless or forgetfulness or distraction that we misplace those things.
And when we realize that they are missing, we embark on a frantic search for those things. A good example would be the keys or the wallet.
When those kind of things are lost, we will feel the anxiety that our security is at risk.
In the gospel, Jesus told a parable of a search - a search for a lost sheep and a search for a lost coin.
We may think that the parable may not make much sense as we would measure the worth of one sheep over ninety-nine sheep and one coin over nine coins.
But Jesus wants to point out to us that that is how God feels when one of His children is lost.
God feels that urgency of an immediate all-out search. But the search can only take place when we are willing to be sent out for the search.
But if we don't feel that anxiety or urgency, then nothing will be found.
Yet we must also remember that when we get lost in the jungle of life, we would also wish that someone would care enough to come and look for us and give us back some hope.
Let us feel the anxiety and urgency of those who are lost in life. In looking for them and helping them, we will also find our way to God.