Where is it?
Do you say this more often than you used to?
Gary says he is aggravated by losing his glasses he has misplaced and spends time looking for them.
I can agree. In fact, I lost my glasses recently. I remembered putting them down very carefully to take care of them. I could just “see” where they were, except I couldn’t “see” where they were placed!
Time and again I looked for them. All the usual places were searched. Give it a little time and they will show up, I thought. But, no, they did not appear. So, I went to my eye doctor and got a new pair. When they called for me to come get them, I got in the car ready to go and looked down in the side pocket of the car door. There were my lost glasses!
Once, when we were on vacation in St. Louis at the zoo with our children and a couple of bonus ones, Gary was somewhat flustered trying to keep up with everyone and be sure no one got left behind. Suddenly, he asked everyone frantically, “Where is Jon!?” He was turning and looking all around with a concerned expression on his face.
“You’re holding him!” the children said! Sure enough, Jon was safely perched on Gary’s hip the whole time!
When we were on another trip, and touring a battleship in Mobile, we went up and down and all around the levels of the ship with the boys. I turned around, and Andrew was nowhere to be seen! He had been right there! Gary and his brothers hadn’t seen him either, so we began a frantic search for him. I was praying hard and trying not to imagine him falling off the ship into the deep water! Suddenly, there he was; we found him safe and sound.
Mom and I had taken Daniel to the mall in Louisville when he was little. We both were busy keeping up with him. Suddenly, we realized neither of us had him. He seemed to disappear into thin air! We looked and looked and then, there he was. An Elvis impersonator was performing in the big aisle, and there was Daniel looking up at him excited to find music!
You have lost things and misplaced things, I’m sure. You know the feeling from irritation to desperation.
Jesus told a parable about a man who had 100 sheep and lost one. “Doesn’t he go after the lost sheep until he finds it? And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders and goes home.” (Luke 15:4b-6)
Jesus goes on to say that there will be “more rejoicing in Heaven over one sinner who repents than over 99 righteous persons who do not need to repent.” (Verse 7)
Make Heaven rejoice with your repentance!
