FOUND

In my present season, life doesn’t seem separated into days, weeks and months. It’s one nonstop time of both good and bad challenges. Challenges need discernment and decisions, of which neither, currently, seems innately obvious. In honesty, about the only fact to which I’m moored is, ironically, being adrift in the coming and going of quagmire after quagmire. My guess is you, probably, understand this. Wouldn’t be surprised if, in this regard, our lives are running parallel. It seems as if being lost in unsureness is today’s prevailing definition of life on planet earth.

Well, maybe this is man’s universal description, but God sure let me know His is otherwise. His correction and enlightenment are what I desire to share.

Worn and questioning the best way forward, I’ve found myself telling God how directionally lost I feel right now. In answer, God sent the “right on” direction that it’s easy to feel lost when I choose to go round and round in circles. I need to go back to God’s “B”asic “I”nstruction “B”efore “L”eaving “E”arth (BIBLE) to get out of the traffic circle and onto the straightaway navigated by the only true compass — my Heavenly Father.

This understood, I next requested a road map leading me out of feeling lost in worldly uncertainty. God’s answer was a question. Why was I travelling the pothole, manmade roads of destruction instead of letting God carry me over the construction of His New Covenant bridge of Redemption and, therefore, released from worldly woes?

God saved His deepest message for me (and you) till later that night. As I was unpacking from a disaster of a leg of a current journey, I was trying to stuff a pile of my earthly belongings into a little cubby. Something in the nook space was preventing me from sliding in my stack of material possessions. Tired and impatient, I pulled out what I wanted to push in, and my hand shopped around for the, so thought, “obstacle” preventing me from accomplishing the task.

I fished out what only God could have baited this lesson with. I had never before seen the object, nor had I any recollection, whatsoever, of it ever belonging to me or anyone else. With a tear trickling down my cheek, I knew it was a gift from God — given to, and received by, me. What was this newly discovered treasure now resting in my hands, heart and soul? It was a cardboard square, highlighted with the word FOUND and adorned with a lamb and heart hanging from a silver chain.

I am not lost in the world. I AM FOUND BY, AND IN, GOD. So are you. “The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want.” Psalm 23:1 (ESV)