Loved and Found

November 30

We who have found Jesus as our Savior tend to congratulate ourselves in that discovery. Certainly, we’re more realistic than to think we managed it on our own, but we do think we have given more credence to His Holy Word, have attended more fully to the wooing of His Holy Spirit and responded more quickly to His call upon our lives than have others who have not found their way to Him.

While there is an element of truth in the above, the reality is that none of it would have been possible were it not for the great love the Lord has for His fallen creation. He has tried to make abundantly clear to us the magnitude of His love, but we are sometimes dull and unable to perceive such amazing love.

Our spiritual eyes are too clouded by the loves of earth to fully apprehend the incomparable love of heaven’s perfect Lamb. We are too focused on the things and the people we desire to embrace in the realm of time to clearly see or understand the amazing heart of love that caused Jesus to forsake His throne in glory (see Philippians 2:6-8) so we might one day abide around His throne in eternity.

But if we will allow ourselves to see, we will realize just why David said in Psalm 145:8, “The Lord is gracious and compassionate… rich in love.” We will understand the truth of I John 4:10 which says, “This is love, not that we loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.” We will rejoice that we have been loved and found by Him, and pray the lost will allow Him to love and find them, too.