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There are times for each of us when it appears that all light, all answers, all strength, all is quickly fading. Hope is eeking out of our lives and we can do nothing to stop the darkness from coming. And often, we feel lost in life—nowhere to go, helpless. It is a wilderness of soul when we feel that we are at an impasse and do not know what to do or where to go. We are tempted to think that we cannot go one step more. We are tempted to think that the Lord has abandoned us.
Yet, Jesus said, “I will leave the 99, and go after the one who is lost.”
Often we hide our lostness from others. Perhaps it is from shame of something terrible we have done or a way we have failed. Maybe we have lost love in marriage, or have a prodigal, or feel helpless or hopeless to keep going in our ideals but we don’t want to admit the deep failures or sense of devastation we carry inside to others. Inside we are dying, outside we keep up the pretense.
Our sin, our selfishness will accompany us until we see Jesus face to face. Today, I have had my friend, Matthew Clark, with me on my podcast, talking about such things. This I know, the heart of Jesus leads Him to seek us out, to gently reach out his hand, to look into our eyes, to carry our burdens with us and to relieve our sense of lostness. We might feel lost, but Jesus is never lost. We read in Psalm 139 that even the dark is not dark to Him.
Peeking into the life of the Woman at the well in Samaria gives me a glimpse of how Jesus sends others away that He might gently and lovingly relieve us of our past sense of loss, failures and lostness. Join me today on At Home with Sally and rejoice in the sweet, personal grace of Christ.