One of my dear friends Jeanna posted a thought the other day that really struck a cord with me. She talked about losing her watch and then paralleled it to how God feels when he has a "lost child." This made so much sense to me. A while back I had lost a necklace that my grandparents gave me. I had a freak out session when I found it was missing from my possession. It was one of the moments when the room starts to get a bit warm, your blood pressure rises, and your head is racing a hundred miles an hour. I was calling my mom, my dad, my sister asking them all to join in the search and help me find the necklace. I know this sounds a bit over the top and it might have been, BUT the necklace had a lot of sentimental value. My grandpa gave it to me on my birthday soon after my cat Rambo died. Rambo was a childhood friend and a part of the family that I grew up with, so it was extremely traumatic when he passed. Anyways the story goes on in that I was the only one that frantically looked for the necklace, my family did not feel the same sense of urgency that I did. I was really disappointed in this. And when I was reading Jeanna's blog I thought about my situation and how no one would help find what was valuable to me. And to add to Jeanna's idea...I know that God considers each of us his greatest treasure. He loves each of us and we are extremely valuable to him. I cant comprehend how mine and Jeanna's situation must be amplified. And how disappointed He must be when the children that aren't lost don't help him find the others. In this I am saying that there are many of hurting and broken people in the world. And God has asked anyone who knows Him to help "seek and save the lost". What happens when we ignore that call or push it to the back burner. I know I have been guilty of it. There has been people in my life that God has put on my heart and because of selfish reasons I have not reached out. I have had several people lately that have been weighing on my heart and this analogy inspires me to reach out to them. God wants us to be a good steward not only of our time and money but also of our relationships. Bottom line is that I hope when each one of God's children is asked to reach out and help, we don't ignore God. I hope we are a good friend to our neighbor, the sick, the hungry, the hurting, and the broken. When we do this "our hearts will start beating like God's."
