To Seek and to Save

We can all get to be way too busy in our lives. There are so many activities that we can choose from.  There is so much information for us to read and evaluate. We can be busy just looking up every thought we have in Google. When we allow all of the distractions of this world to capture us and keep us busy, we miss the most important things that God has for us to do. We can literally waste our lives on things that don't matter.

Jesus was a very busy man, but He was busy doing the right things. We can learn from Him what we should be doing every day. After He ate with Zacchaeus, He declared His purpose for coming. (Luke 19:10) He came as the Son of Man to seek and to save that which was lost. He came as a man, so He could relate to people, and so He could die and rise again to shed His blood as the payment for our sins. So, what can we learn from this verse? 

There are people all around us every day who are lost in their sins. They are wandering through life not knowing what to do. Since we know Jesus as our Lord and Savior, we have the solution to their lostness. However, they will probably never come to us and ask us how to be saved. We have to seek them out as God directs us. We have to pray for God's guidance and listen to the Spirit each day.

Then, when God has directed us to seek out a particular person, we pray for them, that God would work on their heart and prepare them to receive the Good News. We ask God for the opportunity to share with them and we go to them and share the way of salvation. We can't save them ourselves, but we can point them to Jesus who is the One Who can save them. That routine should be a regular part of every believer's life, just like it was in Jesus' life on earth.

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Tomorrow, I intend to read Luke 20-22.