I remember when we lost Red. We searched fields and forests, then got in the truck and drove to every home in the area, asking people if they had seen a big red pit bull. For two or three days we searched everywhere. We have had both dogs and horses turn up missing. In every case the outcome was positive, except with Red—who had stepped in front of a car.
In middle school, I lost clothes, shoes, textbooks, pens, school supplies, EVERYTHING. My parents used to say, “You’d lose your head if it wasn’t screwed on.” They were right. I WOULD have lost my head. Literally. I was a scatterbrained mess. I know how it feels to lose things.
But I’ve never lost anything priceless.
When you lose people, the horror must be overwhelming. You file a police report, you wait 24 hours. No one takes you seriously at first. Parents imagine their children being tortured. Most of the time the lost are found safe. Imagine the relief.
What if you lost God?
What if no matter how you prayed, worshipped, or cried out, God was absent. Can you imagine? What a loss that would be. Imagine the loneliness and isolation. The bleak pointlessness of life. The hopelessness.
Song of Solomon portrays our relationship with God. In the book, the bride loses her love, searches everywhere for him, and finally finds him.
“When I found the one I love, I held on to him and would not let him go” Song of Solomon 3:4
Once you FIND God, HOLD ON! Hold on to Him and do not let go! Do you cherish that relationship more than anything? Do you cling to God and spend time with Him every day! What could be more important?
*** In the 1970s, there was a button that read simply, “I Found It!” The idea was that people would ask what you found and then you could tell them that you found the answer: Jesus. It’s campy and kitschy, perhaps, but not false. Jesus is the answer.
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