Luke 15
Luke 15:6
“Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.”
“Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.”
Luke 15:9
“Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.”
“Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.”
Lost Things
We celebrate when we find lost things our impulse is to
share how it was discovered. But when it comes to people sometimes pride makes
us bitter. We don’t realize the truth and beauty in the finding of people.
I love to see healing and progress but am suspicious when it
doesn’t look like what I want it to.
It was pride that blinded the older brother and pride that
caused the younger’s folly. Same cause different manifestations. In a way both
were lost. The older was blind to his blessings, if only he could see through
the father’s eyes he’d be free to rejoice. The younger obviously lost his inheritance
but gained humility. In the end this acceptance of failure allows love to free
him.
Pride would have us fight for everything. It would have us fight to rest, to love, to succeed. What’s
the point? I don’t know what perfection is. I can’t do everything. I don’t even
know, know, you. So, why should I not
celebrate and trust that all will be perfect in the end?
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