To Never Be Lost…..
To never be lost….
We have had to deal with some tragedies recently with a number of men who have not returned from fishing trips. The families have had to go through the ordeal of not seeing their loved ones again. They are reported as ‘lost at sea’.
But as a Christian there is a great blessing and comfort that God gives to all His children. Whilst we were once lost sheep, having gone astray, the Bible tells us that our Lord and Saviour went after us and brought us safely home – never to be lost again!
Matthew 18: 11 For the Son of Man has come to save that which was lost. 12 “What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine and go to the mountains to seek the one that is straying? 13 And if he should find it, assuredly, I say to you, he rejoices more over that sheep than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray.
There is one thing now a Christian can never be again, and that is lost! Should a believer pass from this world into the next they instantly now go to be with the Lord in glory. 2Co 5:6 So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord.
2Co 5:8 We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.
The day my spirit ceases to exist here in this world, when my time has come, I will go to be with the Lord.
This is the great promise every believer has. Dads and Mums, I encourage you to share this blessed truth with your children. For this is a promise that brings comfort and hope to those remaining at their most difficult of times.
May our children, those who love us, know that at our passing they with certainty know where we are, and in whose arms we lay – our Heavenly Father.
Not lost, not missing, but home, very much alive and with our Heavenly Father and now waiting for that blessed reunion. All because of Jesus!