Not lost , but missed
I have been thinking about the word "lost". I don`t like that word, it is too definite, too final for me. When Jesus, in Luke 15, was talking about the gentiles, the sinful people, he told tree parables. The first was about the lost sheep. He said that there was a man who had 100 sheep and than he lost one and he went to search for the one until he found it. The second parable is about the lost coin. A woman had 10 silver coins and loses one. In trying to find the one she turn her house "upside down". And then the third parable is about the prodigal son. Reading these parables there is something I have been thinking of. Before they got lost they were owned. The sheep was a part of the flock before it got lost. The coin was a part of the ten, and the lost son was living with his father and the brother before he went his own way. In Norwegian the word lost is negative. So what I will do is to think about those who is not yet saved as missing people, people who are wanted by God. They belong to him. He owns the harvest. The harvest belong to him. So, the only thing we shall do is to find those who are missed and bring them back. Easy, isn`t it?

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