Luke 15:8- “What woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it? And when she has found it, she calls her friends and neighbors together, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the piece which I lost’.”
**You are on my heart this morning. I don’t know your name or exact circumstance, but you have a loved one who needs the love of Jesus in their life. I remembered this blog that I wrote years ago. I hope it is just the message you need today. Here is a reprint of my earlier blog post:
Last week, I lost my cross necklace. I reached up to straighten its chain and it was gone!
I checked in our bed, the shower, the car, and on the floor of every room in the house. It just wasn’t there. I was devastated!
I had worn the “lost” cross for more than 15 years. It was precious to me.
“Please God, let me find it!” I asked, fervently. I prayed for Him to shine his light on it…to guide us to wherever it was.
Two days later, I rejoiced with a friend when my husband found it atop a roll of carpet we had pulled up in our renovation. It glistened in the bright morning sun.
I thought of the lady in the Bible who went around her house looking everywhere for a lost coin. She rejoiced when she found her lost silver coin. She even called her friends to let them know.
The verse following Luke15:8, above, reminds us that “…there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”
You and I were the reason for their rejoicing at one time, when we repented and came to Christ. When we tell others of His love and forgiveness of sins, and they become believers, the angels will rejoice with us in their salvation, too!
What better day, than today, to ask God to shine His light onto the heart of a relative or friend?
We can all rejoice together that the one that was once lost is, now, “found”!
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