Usually when ordering something, you may be like us, we are waiting on packages that we ordered weeks ago to arrive! I understand there are sometimes delay issues and human error, and I know it may be a petty complaint that the steak knives I ordered two months are still lost and who knows when I’ll see them, but it’s when things are lost, we can think learn great lessons.

The Lost Book.

In 2 Kings 22, Josiah the king set out to repair the temple. While the carpenters, masons, and builders were working, Hilkiah the priest found the book the Law! Could you imagine having lost your Bible for 60 years and a generation growing up not knowing what it said? While the people of Israel were worshipping pagan gods, no one knew what the Lord had said! The good news is that Josiah had the law read and they realized they were not living as the Lord commanded. This prompted a revival of sorts of the king and all the people to draw back to God. The word of God may not be “lost” in the physical sense, but there are times when it is “lost” in our hearts. When we apply the word of Christ to our hearts (Colossians 3:16) then a revival of the soul can take place!

The Lost Boy.

In Luke 2, Joseph and Mary took Jesus to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Passover. As their custom was, they would have travelled with other friends and relatives in a large caravan. After a day’s journey, they could not fine Jesus, so returned to look for their lost son. We know they found Him right where you would expect Him to be, in the temple about His Father’s business (Luke 2:49). It’s interesting that is the earliest recorded words of our Lord on the earth. While looking for a lost boy, Joseph, and Mary especially, took the things He said to her heart. She would be remined of what her lost boy meant years later at the foot of the cross. Jesus was never “lost” per se, but we are and without His sacrifice, that we remember on the first day of each week with the Lord’s Supper, we know Jesus was doing the Father’s will.

The Lost Soul.

It is God’s desire that not even one soul should be lost, but that all would come to Him. Sadly, we know that people make choices to continue to be lost. God wants us in heaven with Him, He sent His Son to show us the way to Him, and now we must choose whether to stay lost or be found, “For this my son was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found” (Luke 15:24).

By: Justin Odom