Once again, my thought is on a show I have not seen "LOST". But I do see those four letters, on billboards, tv commercials, promos, etc. L O S T?
It has got me thinking alot bout 2 parabales in the Bible, found in Luke chapter 15, if something is lost you go after it, you seek it out, until you find it.
Spiritually there are people who are L O S T, they have been shipwrecked and are just trying to survive . . . hopeing someone will take time to help them and rescue them. God has called us to be "Search & Rescue". We are the ones who need to go out into the rough waters, and into the unmarked territory. God has called ALL of us to go out and find the L O S T! It is the great commission. You have been comissioned by God Almighty to join the Life Saving Station, but will you accept?
For most of us, we wouldn't be here if it wasn't for someone who answered the call, someone who joined the rescue team, someone who was used of God to bring you to safety. So, my question to you, Will you reach the L O S T? Will you rescue them NOW, before it is too late?
The Story of the Life-Saving Station:
On a dangerous seacoast where shipwrecks often occur, there was once a crude little lifesaving station. The building was no more than a hut, and there was only one boat; but the few devoted members kept a constant watch over the sea. With no thought for themselves, they went out day and night, tirelessly searching for the lost. Some of those who were saved, and various others in the surrounding area, wanted to be associated with the station and give their time, money, and effort to support the work. New boats were bought and new crews trained. The little lifesaving station grew.
Some of these new members of the lifesaving station were unhappy that the building was so crude and poorly equipped. They felt that a more comfortable place should be provided as the first refuge of those who were saved from the sea. They replaced the emergency cots with beds and put better furniture in the enlarged building. Now the lifesaving station became a popular gathering place for its members, and they decorated it beautifully and furnished it exquisitely because they used it as sort of a club. Fewer members were not interested in going to sea on lifesaving missions, so they hired lifeboat crews to do this work. The lifesaving motif still prevailed in this club's decoration, and there was a memorial lifeboat in the room where the club initiations were held.
About this time a large ship was wrecked off the coast, and the hired crews brought in boatloads of cold, wet, half-drowned people. They were dirty and sick, and some of them were foreigners. The beautiful new club was in chaos. Immediately, the property committee hired someone to rig up a shower house outside the club, where victims of shipwrecks could be cleaned up before coming inside.
At the next meeting, there was a split in the club membership. Most of the members wanted to stop the club's lifesaving activities because they felt they were unpleasant and a hindrance to the normal social life of the club. A small number of members insisted upon lifesaving as their primary purpose and pointed out that they were still called a lifesaving station. The small group's members were voted down and told that if they wanted to save lives, they could begin their own lifesaving station down the coast.
They did.
As the years went by, however, the new station experienced the same changes that had occurred in the old station. It evolved into a club, and yet another lifesaving station was founded. History continued to repeat itself, and if you visit that seacoast today, you will find a number of exclusive clubs along that shore.
Shipwrecks are frequent in those waters, but most of the passengers drown.
My Final Thought:
Let's not focus on the comforts of life and the things we can make, but focus on eternity and the lives that are at stake.
